Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay is a poet, calligraphy and tea-artist. He is based in Santiniketan and works from his home, Kokoro – an embodiment of his long cultural engagements with Japan. He writes short verse and essays in Bengali, and has introduced a unique cursive Bengali calligraphy inspired by the Japanese style of writing, using materials that affect transcendence, towards abstract and spiritual realms. He has also introduced an Indian tea ceremony, ‘Bodhi-Cha’, combining elements of Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean tea-traditions. His works celebrate the mysteries of nature and the universe, the beautiful impermanence, incompleteness and imperfections of life.
