ABSTRACT
I shall start first with Making of Maps, which I made in 1991. I suppose the first thing I thought about when I made Making of Maps was the question of heritage. One of the things that I found very frustrating about East-West collaborations and crosscultural ventures was that they seemed to prescribe to me a very static view of my own heritage. For me, my heritage is a mix of David Bowie, Purcell, Shelley, and Anna Pavlova, and it has been mixed as subtly as a sarnosa has mixed itself into the English cuisine in the last ten years or so: impossible to separate. But it is surprising how to many people my heritage could only be things Indian.
