Background
Sutar was born into a poor family, on 19 February in 1925, in the village of Gondur, in Dhulia district of Maharashtra.
Sutar was born into a poor family, on 19 February in 1925, in the village of Gondur, in Dhulia district of Maharashtra.
His early mentor was Guruji Shri Shriram Krishna Joshi, who later encouraged him to join the Sir Josip Juraj School of Art in Bombay. As a modeler for the Department of Archaeology, South Western Circle, Aurangabad, between 1954 and 1958 he was involved in restoring several ancient sculptures found in the caves of Ellora and Ajanta. In 1958-1959, he was Technical Assistant ( Model ) in the Exhibition Division of Audiovisual Publicity, Ministry of I & B, New Delhi, for preparing various types of models on the Five Year Plans.
He left his Government job in 1959 with the intention of becoming a professional sculptor.
His first work of note was the 45 feet Chambal monument at the Gandhi Sagar Dam, in Madhya Pradesh, India. Jawaharlal Nehru the Prime Minister was so impressed with this magnificent work that he asked Ram to do a similar 50 feet high monument in bronze for the Bhakra Dam to commemorate the workers who laid down their lives in during the making of this stupendous engineering marvel of modern India.
But this work modelled on the theme of Triumph of Labour was left incomplete due to paucity of funds. The most well known among his works is the bust of Mahatma Gandhi that he sculpted, which is instantly recognizable worldwide, and copies of it were presented by the Government of India to other countries like France, Italy, Argentina, Barbados, Russia, England, Italy, and Argentina where they have been put on display on the occasion of the Gandhian Centenary Celebrations.
However the largest copy of this bust was made for the International Trade Fair of Asia in "72 & is permanently on display at Pragati Maidan, Mathura Road, New Delhi.
Mahatma Gandhi has always been his most frequent muse. He has also sculpted Mahatma Gandhi statues in meditation pose, 17 feet high, which are installed at Gandhinagar, Gujarat & at Parliament House, New Delhi. A 13 feet high monumental statue of Mahatma Gandhi accompanied by Harijan Children was sculpted for Sandur in Bangalore, Gandhi Smriti in Delhi & Delhi Public School in Noida.
Another well known sculpture of his is the 21 feet high Equestrian statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh which he made for Amritsar.
Other notable sculptures are the 10 feet high bronze statue of Govind Ballabh Pant overlooking Rafi Marg in New Delhi and the depiction of Goddess Ganga and Yamuna at the Rose Garden, in Ludhiana, in Punjab. He is the main designer of this unique project and the main contractor is L & T.