Indian art has gone through a boom period in parallel with the extraordinary
economic rise of the subcontinent from an agrarian state to a high tech axis of
the new global economy. With new money came a new gallery system. With bigger
spaces came bigger art and the sheer scale of ambition led to a break into the
international market, which is always keen to find a new spectacular presence in
the art world. The new art has also been created against a background of
communal tension and violence. The exploration of identity, a common enterprise
for artists internationally, is all the more challenging in the