His picture of Benares looks like a manuscript of a poem. It is amazing to see the application of colours there. Ranadip Mukherjee is a name that has been working for the past 33 years in the field of contemporary art in India. He had his first solo exhibition at Kolkata's Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 and his second solo show at Kolkata's prestigious auditorium in Tata Centre the following year. And in 1993, his first one-man show in Mumbai in the Jahangir Art Gallery.

Tata Steel commissioned the Artist to paint the glorious 100-year history of steel making, which Sir Ratan Tata himself opened the show in Jamshedpur on 3rd March 2011. Ranadip shifted his studio from Kolkata to Mumbai permanently in 2002.