Yusuf Arakkal - Bangalore based artist with his paintings, sculptures and poetry.

Born in Kerala, India in the year 1945, the young Arakkal lost both his parents as a child. Literally to the manor born, his early life had every conceiveable comfort with the exclusion of parental love. Possesed by a burning desire to be an artist, he enrolled at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, just to get a formal education although he was already a good artist. His early years of struggle to establish himself, his sensitivity to the social environment, the loss of human dignity in the face of harsh reality and a longing for peace have led him to say, "There is an anguished being, disturbed and in distress somewhere deep inside me. A human being who yearns for a meaningful existence. It is the human presence that arouses my attention and stirs my creative inner space. I have been committed through my work, seeking a definition of human situations."