In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern.

All the modern inconveniences

Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as tradition affects us, we too affect tradition and culture, and we change it.

Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.