• 14 Nov, 2026
S. M. Sultan: The Painter Who Gave Bengal's Peasants the Bodies of Heroes

S. M. Sultan: The Painter Who Gave Bengal's Peasants the Bodies of Heroes

S. M. Sultan, the mason's son from Narail known in his village as Lal Mia, turned his back on the art schools and gallery capitals of three continents to paint from a house on the Chitra River. What he painted there — the farmers of Bengal with the bodies of giants — made him one of the founders of modern Bangladeshi art.