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It happened one night

Artist Subodh Gupta and designer Rajesh Pratap talk art, fashion and the point where they intersect.

They sat facing each other and told stories that were almost like parallel lines and yet, as when you are looking out of a train window, they seemed to merge. In the early years, around 1994 95, they lived in the same neighbourhood in Mayur Vihar in Delhi; young strugglers in a fractured city. Subodh Gupta, the quintessential contemporary artist from the badlands of Bihar, used to

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