Overview
- Hospital sources told PTI that Chowdhury was admitted to a Kolkata hospital after developing a urinary tract infection around Durga Puja and has since been put on ventilator support with his condition described as serious.
- Officials said Chowdhury has been treated for blood cancer for more than a year and has undergone multiple rounds of chemotherapy during that period.
- The reporting is based on hospital officials quoted to PTI and published in an auto-generated article, and no family statements or independent clinical details were provided.
- Chowdhury's medical decline has drawn attention because he is widely regarded as a major figure in modern Indian art and has held roles such as curator of the Rashtrapati Bhavan art gallery.
- Born in 1939 in present-day Bangladesh, Chowdhury trained at the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata and studied in Paris on a French government scholarship, a career that shaped his national recognition and explains public concern over his health.