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If there was a cultural artefact that truly represents everything that is India today, what would it be? I have been grappling with this question since I went to watch Nikhil Mehta’s Blackbox play called On The Record last month in Delhi. The play threw up many tangible and intangible cultural artefacts–Taj Mahal, yoga, Carnatic music, samosa, Khajuraho, Rasgulla, Sanskrit, and so on. If we pick the right object, it would be a statement about who we are and signal to the world about how we are different. Legendary British Museum curator Neil MacGregor wrote in his seminal book A...
