Niranjan Pradhan, born: 1940, at Sunderbans, West Bengal, he passed first eight years of his childhood there and till early youth, latter he lived at Midnapore. He came to Calcutta and was admitted in Government College of Art and Craft (GCAC) at the age of 18. Sculptor Pradhan got Diploma in Painting in 1964 and in Sculpture in 1967 from the GCAC.