Synopsis The present effort aims to Understand the personality of Padma Shree awardee Gulam Rasool Santosh, a modern Indian artist - an individual, possessing multidimensional personality, with a natural approach to life. An avid colourist and ceaselessly inventive artist, Santosh was in the vanguard of Neo-Tantric waves in modern Indian painting. To present a total view of the development of his journey as an artist, an effort has been made to focus on the aspect that for him the plastic- visual possibilities of Tantric.