By the light of the three projectors the four reverse painted cylinders form an interminable movement of shadows on a wall. Therefore, images appear in 3 registers; the painted image, the shadows and the projected image. These are accretions of Orientalism harking back to 19th century British rule in India. But the sound track pulls one into the present period, with its postcolonial aggression of the WTO and the GATT, through a sinister sounding poem.

This video /shadow play follows in line with the artist's earlier Preoccupation with shadows i.e. "The Sacred and The Profane" and "Dissonance'. However here we have one more register of images in the video. The painted image, its shadow and the video image together form an ever Changing montage of movement. Developed from Edward Said' s "Orientalism", it pulls in, with the text, the absurdity of today's postcolonial situation where 'cheap' air time on the cell phone is compared to 'vada-pau', a working class man's lunch costing Rs. 3/-. Different version exhibited in Unpacking Europe in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

It was the best of times
We had everything before us
We were all going direct to heaven.

Vada pav rupees 3, Airtime rupees 1.49
Nimbu pani rupees 3, Airtime rupees 1.49

Hello
Can you hear me?
Of course you can hear me.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

Let me ask you a question.
How many square feet of land would the
Japanese get in Tokyo with what they spent
On That Golf Course in Goa?

In Goa .Goa . Gooooaa.

And amma, please send me to English school
And amma, she really was no fool.

Avon girl on the Amazon.
Skin so soft, Hot cinnamon

"Hi honey-I'm here" she claps and calls
She'll be paid in chickens and manioc flour
If the piranhas don't get her as she falls.

And amma, please send me to English school
And amma, she really was no fool.

Vegetarian or non
What turns you on?

Clucking potatoes with chicken genes
Or tomatoes swimming where fish have been?

Here come the seeds. they’re terminator seeds
Big science watching over your food needs.

And amma, please send me to English school
And amma, she really was no fool.

So?
So.
So la tee do
So la tee do
I do, I do
In high heeled shoe.
I do, I do
Want to be like you.
I Orange I Blue
I do, I do.

And amma, please send me to English school
And amma, she really was no fool.

Hello
Can you hear me?
Of course you can hear me.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.

I speak Orange, I speak Blue
I speak your speak just like you.