If modern Indian art has been the fortunate beneficiary of multiple inheritances, it is also the active vehicle of diverse aesthetic tendencies. As such, it stages a series of transitions and intersections: while it has been nourished by the languages of modernism emanating from the grand centres of Europe, it has also sought to adapt the philosophy and pictorial methodologies of the Indic traditions of art-making. Far from being automatically empowered by their cultural location at the intersection of several civilisational domains and artistic lineages, Indian art today is a result of specific and at times difficult choices made by the artist. And the art of Ramananda Bandyopadhyay is no exception. Stimulated by the visual environment and expressive culture in which he lives in, his art is composed by the spectacles and performances of everyday life.