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			<title><![CDATA["Pied Doggy Dog"   Acrylic ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Pied Doggy Dog"   Acrylic on Canvas 2008  120x140 cm.  A semi abstract composition that reenacts the whole history of Kerala and south India.  The mighty leg with a sacred thread pushes down the Sramana traditions of Buddhism and Jainism in South India to the underground.  The Maha Bali myth is also contextual.  The enslaved and mediating Sudras who lick the kicking feet of power and imperialism are also dramatized in the image of the pied dog.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA["Pied Doggy Dog"   Acrylic on Canvas 2008  120x140 cm.  A semi abstract composition that reenacts the whole history of Kerala and south India.  The mighty leg with a sacred thread pushes down the Sramana traditions of Buddhism and Jainism in South India to the underground.  The Maha Bali myth is also contextual.  The enslaved and mediating Sudras who lick the kicking feet of power and imperialism are also dramatized in the image of the pied dog.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["The Brooding"  Acrylic ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["The Brooding"  Acrylic on Canvas 2008  140x120.  A dark green textural exploration in the backdrop and two birds in the foreground.  A Paradise Flycatcher in white morph with long tail streamers perching on a twig in the right bottom and a Brahmany Kite hovering at the left top.  A visualization of the brooding presence of the violent hunter and the problematic plight of the migrant prey.  An alllegory of cultural nationalism and fascism in Kerala and India.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA["The Brooding"  Acrylic ]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA["The Brooding"  Acrylic on Canvas 2008  140x120.  A dark green textural exploration in the backdrop and two birds in the foreground.  A Paradise Flycatcher in white morph with long tail streamers perching on a twig in the right bottom and a Brahmany Kite hovering at the left top.  A visualization of the brooding presence of the violent hunter and the problematic plight of the migrant prey.  An alllegory of cultural nationalism and fascism in Kerala and India.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["Indus to Idakal"  Acrylic]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Indus to Idakal"  Acrylic on Canvas  2009  120x140 cm.  A simple child art or tribal art like human figure holding a jar.  An image of work culture drawn from Indus valley scripts and icons.  Recently the same image was discovered from Idakal caves in north eastern Kerala in the Wayanad district.  A visual connection that links the Dravidian legacy from Indus to Idakal in the south.  fragmented and decomposed texture and treatment hinting at the erasures and masks of history, knowledge systems and visual representation.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA["Indus to Idakal"  Acrylic]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA["Indus to Idakal"  Acrylic on Canvas  2009  120x140 cm.  A simple child art or tribal art like human figure holding a jar.  An image of work culture drawn from Indus valley scripts and icons.  Recently the same image was discovered from Idakal caves in north eastern Kerala in the Wayanad district.  A visual connection that links the Dravidian legacy from Indus to Idakal in the south.  fragmented and decomposed texture and treatment hinting at the erasures and masks of history, knowledge systems and visual representation.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["The Break"  Acrylic and Oil on Canvas]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["The Break"  Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 2007  150x130 cm.  An allegorical landscape of Kerala Western Ghats showing the flora and fauna.   Magpie Robin and Pied cat watch the day break.  Suggestions to the breaking of silence by the subaltern and subhuman.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA["The Break"  Acrylic and Oil on Canvas]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA["The Break"  Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 2007  150x130 cm.  An allegorical landscape of Kerala Western Ghats showing the flora and fauna.   Magpie Robin and Pied cat watch the day break.  Suggestions to the breaking of silence by the subaltern and subhuman.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["The Bird"  Mixed Media]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["The Bird"  Mixed Media on Canvas  2006  50x40 cm.  A study of Crow Pheasant in Kerala landscape.  Allegorical reference to ethnic slurs and human-bird analogies.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA["The Bird"  Mixed Media on Canvas  2006  50x40 cm.  A study of Crow Pheasant in Kerala landscape.  Allegorical reference to ethnic slurs and human-bird analogies.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["The Ape"  Acrylic on Canvas]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["The Ape"  Acrylic on Canvas  2008  60x40 cm.  Semi abstract and geometrical composition with lines, colours and textures.  An exploration in form as well as a retrogressive inquiry into primitive art and cognition.  A visual search into the linkages between the visual, cognitive and the epistemological.  The Ape is often a racist trope of representation as well.  An ethical concern into the social imaginary of the ape and the monkey analogy in representational violence is also profoundly invoked and rethought.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA["The Ape"  Acrylic on Canvas]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA["The Ape"  Acrylic on Canvas  2008  60x40 cm.  Semi abstract and geometrical composition with lines, colours and textures.  An exploration in form as well as a retrogressive inquiry into primitive art and cognition.  A visual search into the linkages between the visual, cognitive and the epistemological.  The Ape is often a racist trope of representation as well.  An ethical concern into the social imaginary of the ape and the monkey analogy in representational violence is also profoundly invoked and rethought.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["Dogmatic"  Acrylic on Canvas]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Dogmatic"  Acrylic on Canvas 2007  60x40 cm.   Half beast and half human figure showing strong resemblance to the dog family.  Stock images of aristocracy and nobility are comically ridiculed in representation.  A caricature and critique of cultural elitist claims and 'good old' discourses related to Brahmanism and Sudra subjugation, especially in the cultural history and polity of Kerala.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA["Dogmatic"  Acrylic on Canvas]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA["Dogmatic"  Acrylic on Canvas 2007  60x40 cm.   Half beast and half human figure showing strong resemblance to the dog family.  Stock images of aristocracy and nobility are comically ridiculed in representation.  A caricature and critique of cultural elitist claims and 'good old' discourses related to Brahmanism and Sudra subjugation, especially in the cultural history and polity of Kerala.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["Breeding Hog"  Acrylic on Canvas]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Breeding Hog"  Acrylic on Canvas  2007  120x100 cm.   Sur-real and bizarre image of a female hog in breeding appearance.  A visual allegory about the ethnic slur against subaltern bio power and fertility propagated by cultural elitist and ethno-supremacist discourses.  Reference to subaltern anti-caste movements and strong opposition from elite Savarna groups in Kerala social reforms. Imagery and colour shcemes of animation and contemporary visual culture used.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA["Breeding Hog"  Acrylic on Canvas]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA["Breeding Hog"  Acrylic on Canvas  2007  120x100 cm.   Sur-real and bizarre image of a female hog in breeding appearance.  A visual allegory about the ethnic slur against subaltern bio power and fertility propagated by cultural elitist and ethno-supremacist discourses.  Reference to subaltern anti-caste movements and strong opposition from elite Savarna groups in Kerala social reforms. Imagery and colour shcemes of animation and contemporary visual culture used.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["Sahodaran" Mixed Media]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Sahodaran" Mixed Media on Paper 2004 20x30cm.  Portrait of Sahodaran Ayyappan as a young man.  The legendary intellectual and social revolutionary of early 20th century Kerala.  The poet and editor who envisioned and imagined the Kerala modernity and a brave new world with all the spirit and dynamism of his age.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA["Sahodaran" Mixed Media on Paper 2004 20x30cm.  Portrait of Sahodaran Ayyappan as a young man.  The legendary intellectual and social revolutionary of early 20th century Kerala.  The poet and editor who envisioned and imagined the Kerala modernity and a brave new world with all the spirit and dynamism of his age.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA["Ambedkar"  Oil Pastel]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Ambedkar"  Oil Pastel on Handmade Paper 2005, 20x30 cm.  Portrait of Dr B R Ambedkar, the architect of Indian constitution and the immortal leader of the subaltern people in India and the world.  Image is sombre and grave in depicting the intellectual and spiritual stature and mind of the young leader.]]></description>
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