A 1981 exhibition of art that took place at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. It included the work of Jogen Chowdhury, Bhupen Khakhar, Nalini Malani, Sudhir Patwardhan, Gulammohammed Sheikh and Vivan Sundaram. It was a landmark exhibition and is considered to have marked the transition from modernist to postmodernist art practice in India.
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