Rama, fellow Blogbhartian, has started a new art blog, Art Futures Kolkata, with this admirable goal: Making Art Accessible, Relating Art to Community.

In the latest post, Rama questions the been-there, seen-that smugness of some Kolkatans:

Do they visit other painting or scuplture exhibitions of local or Indian artists in galleries or museums in Calcutta or elsewhere in India?

Does their artistic sensibility express itself in their individual or social lives? Does their artistic or aesthetic sensibility extend to other aspects of urban life – such as not urinating in public places? Or occasionally sparing a thought (in between shedding tears at exquisite renditions of Rabindrasangeet or marching and shouting resounding slogans against global imperialism) for the sanitary conditions in Calcutta’s bastis?