There’s a picture on my bedroom cupboard that I wake up to each morning. It’s from the catalogue of the artist Farhad Hussain, titled `After the Theatre of Absurdity.’ I bought this in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat for what it tells me about the kind of Gujarat that fuelled the imagination of the artist not so long ago, versus the dead space that it is today, as yet another election is upon the state. Farhad Hussain studied at M S University, Baroda, in the year 2005, three years after the infamous Gujarat pogrom of 2002.