In 1987 late-20th century ‘CHITRI O BHASKAR GOSTHI’, the renowned artists' group of Kolkata was formed by the nine artists (founder members), Asoke Kumar Biswas, Rama Prasad Ghatak, Ashim Bose, Hirendra Nath Dutta, Ratan Bandopadhyay, Chandrasekhar Acharya, Swapna Sen, Ashutosh Chakravarty & Prithwis Sikdar.

Artists of any organized troupe of our time are not loyal to any schooling unlike the artistic movement of other times. Artists of ‘CHITRI O BHASKAR GOSTHI’ thus following the unit of the collective whole is singular an inseparable. Following the verdict of time are self-established in their own creative spheres. But at the same time united as they are, they form the group by themselves in terms of diversity of individual artistic ideas.

At present nine artists belongs to this group of whom two are working on sculpture and the rest are painters. The age span of ‘CHITRI O BHASKAR GOSTHI’ is neither too long nor too short. This group is striding on with different assignments for more than three decades.