About Dhiraj Choudhury
Lived 1936 – 2018 (aged 81–82). Dhiraj Choudhury was an Indian painter.
Dhiraj Choudhury (September 1936 – 1 June 2018) was an Indian painter. His work was displayed in more than eighty exhibitions, among those sixteen were international painting exhibitions.
Career Choudhury was born in 1936 in Bengal and took up painting as a budding artist from his childhood. Choudhury taught at the College of Art, New Delhi, during 1961–66. Choudhury referred to himself as an "aggressive painter" of "life full of misery" having to live through partition. He often expressed his protests against the dowry system, corruption and social inequalities.
Death Choudhury died on 1 June 2018, at the age of 82.
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Who was Dhiraj Choudhury?
Indian painter (1936–2018)
When was Dhiraj Choudhury born?
Dhiraj Choudhury was born in 1936 in Brahmanbaria District.
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Dhiraj Choudhury died on 1 June 2018 in Kolkata.
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Dhiraj Choudhury was a painter.
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Dhiraj Choudhury was Indian.
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