Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons' by Anand Neelakantan is part of the author's effort to compile folk, oral, and textual variations of popular stories from Hindu mythology.

Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist ... A seeming jumble of themes and materials, Rama's different series in fact come together as a coherent whole, tackling notions like ...

The murals in the upstairs bar, presenting half-naked dancers clad in fantastic, whirling skirts, echo the decadence of European cabarets. Meanwhile the large-format oil painting Dance in the lower ...