Why does every artist need to be a great storyteller? Back in 1961, American author Robert Heinlein attempted to address this question in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Paying homage to French sculptor Auguste Rodin, he wrote, "Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become." But he went on to say, that to be a great artist like Rodin, one would have to "look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be..."

Antariksha Sanchar held at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi last year