This writer identifies with a salient quality of travelling exhibitions. Their instinctive toting of stories in a pitaara — traversing multiple cities and neighbourhoods — stands out as a knowing visitor. In clear fleeting moments, the display becomes one with the viewer. Convergence, a panoramic overview of French-influenced photography in India engages onlookers with its mobile pitaara. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) collaborated with the French Institute in India to present the display, the contents of which have been handpicked by Rahaab Allana from The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. 

Riboud shows Pandit Ravi Shankar playing sitar in front of young musicians, accompanied by drummer Chatur Lal in Delhi in 1956