Sanjay Das documented the Bengal way of life through its temples, bazaars and rituals
In 2021 Sanjay hired a local boatman and saw how badly the 21 Jain terracottatemples, at Telkupi in Bengal’s Purulia district, had eroded over time. This area, along with most of the temples situated there, was submerged in 1959 because of the construction of a dam across the Damodar river at Panchet. Sanjay says:”It’s a…