Sethi sees the programme as design coming of age. &ldquoWe don&rsquot have a word for high art, craft, fine art in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi or any other Indian language. We have taken a lot of colonial excess baggage withEnglish,&rdquo he says
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Different takes on Mumbai by artists Charmi Gada Shah, Parvathi Nayar and Akshay Rajpurkar
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A black-and-yellow Premier Padmini, an indelible part of Mumbai&rsquos landscape, negotiates the city&rsquos crowded streets in Baiju Parthan&rsquos &lsquoHope&rsquo. It is part of &lsquoLayered Narratives&rsquo in the arrivals zone of the airport
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The &lsquoJaya He&rsquo collection is a seamless blend of art and architecture
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The &lsquoJaya He&rsquo collection is a seamless blend of art and architecture
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Rajeev Sethi, the curator standing in front of artwork created by Gond artists of Madhya Pradesh
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Rajeev Sethi&rsquos signature sculpture draws on the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur. The installation references textile as architecture in the shape of a turban
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As the programme moved from conceptualisation to realisation, a team of historians, conservation engineers and restorers worked exclusively on the conservation and restoration of traditional artefacts. The collection has 3,000 antiques registered with the Archaeological Survey of India. Totems from Nagaland were rescued from termites. There are doors with tiger motifs sourced from Sikkim,
