India's connection with the world, in an exhibition

An ambitious exhibition attempts to tell the story of India as also the history of the world

The India and the World exhibition at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai (CSMVS, formerly the Prince of Wales Museum) opens immediately as you enter. In the main hall of the museum are five large statues — the bull Nandi, a winged Garuda, Hanuman and a Bharvahaka. Also, one of Europe’s most famous sculptures — the “Townley Discobolus”, a Roman copy of the Greek Myron’s anatomically perfect discus thrower. 

They appear to represent binary concepts like the sacred and secular, India and the world, but juxtaposed, it’s apparent that they all represent the idea of vehicles as well as