The Japanese art of Kintsugi is not only about repairing valuable broken ceramics with lacquer and gold, it celebrates the history of the breakage and repair which increases the value of the piece manifold. Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay, a great admirer of Japanese culture, celebrates the greatest accident of his life – Thyroid Cancer, the challenges of which he has endured over 26 years and counting.
A special officer of Rabindra-Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Nilanjan is a respected scholar, writer, and…