K. K. Gopalakrishnan provides a wealth of detail especially for those who have little or no access to texts in Malayalam.

A childlike curiosity and a rare urge to get closer to his ‘multiple identities’ defined Dashrath Patel’s explorations in art. Yet an amnesic nation chooses not to remember independent India’s first multi-media artist and design educator.

Is the thought of a shared space so hard to imagine that the caste/class conscious privileged must ‘leave’ in order to make way?