Exhibition of paintings by Prakash Bal Joshi at Mumbai One world - we say. But within this there exist so many worlds. Distinct, self sufficient and presumably isolated and unaffected by what goes on in the other worlds. A myriad microcosms - independent, self-sustaining. Till such time that the worlds overlap, collide and impinge on each other.Worlds of compact eco systems, of close knit communities, of production units, of ordered social systems.
Worlds that form themselves into communities with their own language, expressions and meaning. Worlds that include and, by implication, also exclude. An intonation, a look, the subtle nuance of words that speaks either 'you are one of us' or says 'you do not belong here'. Venn diagrams of exclusion and exclusivity or cooption and community. Holding within themselves a security for all members of the set but also a certain fluidity where that stability is always under challenge from the contradictions within itself and also from external developments.
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