The backdrop of moody July skies seems to echo a kaleidoscope of visual art that Kolkata spaces offer this month, from the compelling human stories of Bangladesh-based photojournalist-activist Shahidul Alam, to a comprehensive retrospective of Somnath Hore, to ebullient colours that mark a Gond ritual of tree worship. July 2022, in Kolkata art spaces.

‘Harlem at that time was known as an African-American neighbourhood, but also home to many Asians and Latinos. It was a neighbourhood into which men like Habib could disappear… “It’s important to emphasise that at a time when the United States as a nation had rejected Asian immigrants and criminalised their entry into the country,…’ The story of Bengali immigrants in America.