Among our contemporaries, artists Nalini Malani and Atul Dodiya have each addressed a major narrative, extending it into versions, recensions, avatars. Malani has taken Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as her focus in ‘Living in Alice Time’, while Dodiya has sought Sabari in the Ramayana in his work, ‘The Wet Sleeves of my Paper Robe (Sabari in her Youth: After Nandalal Bose)’.