Perhaps nowhere else is this necessity so sharply brought out as in an assemblage entitled Gandhi and Family where we have full colour two-dimensional cut out of Gandhi confronted with the motley crowd of those accused of and punished for his assassination. There is an ageing terrorist, a newspaper radical, an arms-dealing sadhu who later turned approver, a man who fled from the act, a driver and other such elements whose only claim to immortality was that they had conspired to kill Gandhi. Ms Ghosh has brought this out very well by painting them in a flat black and white. They are the cold and pock-marked moon to Gandhi's sun. They represent a spent force in history in comparison to the latter's active intervention in making India independent. And in today's India, when their acolytes are in power, we cannot but think of how we are under threat of losing all we fought for and stand for. A TV with the video of a man ironing clothes with an old and outdated iron reminds us of the regimentation our society isbeing subjected to by the present dispensation. The work definitely makes one think as it should.

Works apart, it is unfortunate that the show has been weakly presented, so that the two artists never come into a dialogue with each other. Artists' works are not only individually created, but ought to be unique. It is the job of the curator to blend them or confront them in a meaningful way. In this exhibition Mr Roemer fails even to be the metronome to Ms Subba's music. Good curating demands at least that.

-Suneet Chopra