Like many of his contemporaries such as Chittaprosad, Somnath Hore and Zainul Abedin, Gobardhan Ash (1907-1996) will be remembered for his documentation of the manmade Bengal famine of 1943 whose horrors he captured in innumerable paintings and drawings with the poignancy and verity of photographic images. He used watercolour as well as pen and ink to execute these and exhibited them in 1945. Th…