His family, including his wife, two daughters, and his son all help him in making jorana patas or rolled paintings. Mantu is also a composer, creating scrolls and songs based on his travels around the world and narratives based on themes inspired by the sacred Hindu or Muslim texts from history and myth. Having developed scrolls based on themes of HIV-AIDS and women’s rights, Mantu Chitrakar is one of the few painters in Naya who has traveled outside of India. He went from West Bengal to Australia with a number of other Indian folk artists through the assistance of a grant and the help of Minhazz Majumdar.