<b>Kishore Singh:</b> Urban anxieties

Kallat does not set out to please as much to express his own subaltern voice, dictate his actions

Jitish Kallat’s current prestigious exhibition — it has opened at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, and has been curated by the highly regarded Catherine David — is accompanied by a media blitz entirely in keeping with the artist’s eclectic career. But reading those accounts, most of them made up of lines extrapolated from press notes, makes one wonder: Does anybody get Kallat and his work? Contemporary artists, at the best of times, can be overwhelming with their social messaging and sub-texts, but Kallat is among the more interesting of his generation, not least because of his