Manish Nai memorialises our contemporary time in a zen contemplation of casting blocks of the materials we use in everyday industry. These materials are worn by us and used to build homes but also discarded into heaps of detritus. Squeezing them into compact cubes of wire, indigo cloth and newspaper he illustrates Bombay’s material culture. Thus when one encounters the work of Teja Gavankar we are reminded of the curved cupola of a Buddhist stupa. She engages in a mirage; her brick made concrete sculpture is airborne. The Buddha rejected organised religion and urged humans to think beyond the realm of what they were witnessing and had witnessed until now, to seek beyond traditions and the culture that constricts their freedoms. Conceptual thinking began at this moment when man was erased of his fear. A conceptual artist well performed by Teja should be able to sculpt and paint beyond technique and forms taught to them. Sakshi Gupta uses found scrap metal to make bird wings and life size pigeons perhaps as an artist she is reminding us of our receding freedoms in the 21st century? Samim Alam Beg using stoneware draws the skeletons of vegetal matter as architectures of the self. In times of constant information architectures of the self are urgent reminders to save ourselves from erasure. Sudarshan’s spectacles with speaker cones talk of our moment today. We see things loud but can’t speak of them, censuring ourselves and becoming unheard.