Arpan Das is a Kolkata-based freelancer, born in 1982 in Kolkata. He received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Visual Arts in the years 2006 and 2008 respectively from the Government College of Art and Craft Kolkata. In his painting, he tries to depict the human and his continuous efforts to understand the social scenario from past and present, his modernity, his various emotions, and his world of immense curiosity. Life and its warp and woofs, ups and downs, and anxious moments become the subject sometimes. His works are the reflections of his conscious or subconscious mind where Indian-ness is expressed through ‘not so Indian’ gestures. Idealism through realistic depiction. He has done several exhibitions all over the world. In 2009, he was awarded the ‘Indra Dugar Award’.