A dhoti-clad Nachiketa walking into the depths of a jungle; a conversation between Nachiketa and Yama (The God of death); and Nachiketa walking forward on an urban street as things move behind — these were the three scenes that were projected onscreen from three different projectors as the riveted audience sat at the Chatterjee & Lal Gallery in Colaba. The projections were part of a video installation created by Ashish Avikunthak on the Katho Upanishad, a sacred text of theHindus.

While the first and the third projections were looped, the middle segment, which is the most important, was an enactment of the conversation between Nachiketa and Yama (the God of death), where Yama reveals to him what happens after death. Yama tries to provide solutions to the spiritual seeker inside Nachiketa as he tells him the route to escape the cycle of life and death.