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New Delhi: At Raihan Vadra’s exhibition, titled ‘No Idea Is Final’, the empty walls speak more than any photograph could. One has been painted a glaring red and a neat print of the constitution’s preamble runs through.

Vadra is a 26-year-old photographer. As is well known, he is also Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s son, and is descended from three Indian prime ministers.

Vadra’s latest exhibition is the first time that he is using his work as a direct reflection of the present climate. But mere hours before his show was due to open on October 21, Vadra says that the venue, Bikaner House, forced him to take down 75 of his 105 photographs. At 6 pm on October 20, he received a call from Bikaner House, informing him that certain works were against their policy which prohibits “nudity and political content.”

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Most of the photographs that were taken down were portrayals of the protests that have taken place in Delhi over the past few months. Over half the exhibition consisted of emotive, black and white portraits of the street takeover. A seemingly hostile group of police officers overpowering a single protester, a solitary man clutching the constitution, a sea of people during Rahul........

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