Author/Artist :Somnath HoreTitle :Somnath HoreSize :11x 8.5 inMedium :Pencil on paper
This drawing breathes the silent agony of displacement and survival. The cart, crudely formed, becomes a vessel of burden — carrying not just bodies, but histories of hunger and struggle. The upright figure is strained, etched with the weight of responsibility, while the smaller figures echo helplessness, fragility, and fractured hope. The raised arm of the seated figure gestures not in triumph, but in desperate assertion of existence. The fallen body by the side speaks of neglect, of those who collapse unseen on the road. In these bare lines, Hore channels the famine-ravaged memories of Bengal — a procession of suffering where survival itself was resistance.
