India, Oct. 26 -- Jogen Chowdhury wore many hats through the course of his long arts career - he was a practitioner whose works spoke in multiple registers; he was an arts administrator, setting up Charubasona, also called the Jogen Chowdhury Centre for Arts, a space dedicated to the visual arts; he was a revered academician, working first as reader and later as principal, at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan; he was Keeper of Art at the Rashtrapati Bhavan; he was a member of the advisory committee of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi; an illustrator of a book of poems; a jury member for biennales; and a curator for exhibitions; he was also a politician, joining the Rajya Sabha in 2014 on a nomination from the Trinamool Congress.

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