Artist Sutapa Biswas: 'I wanted viewers to work hard and feel uncomfortable'

A new exhibition showcases an artist who has spent four decades shattering Asian stereotypes and highlighting women's untold stories The artist Sutapa Biswas's father was a legendary figure in her family: a Marxist agronomist who stood up to the government in west Bengal over environmental abuses, and smoked joints in a moonlit Taj Mahal (he broke in). Yet it is her mother's experience that anchors the artist's new docufiction film Lumen, about a woman who travelled alone with five children, fol...