something you think about?
R J: Yes, it’s something I’m absolutely interested in. It’s hard to tease it out in some ways. Senegal was the place I went as a young person. It was the first place I was truly free, in many different ways. I have a strong, nostalgic engagement in that particular environment and it speaks to why I love West Africa so much. Absolutely I’m turned on by the madness of colour there and the quality of light on the equator. Admittedly, though I’ve been slow in my developmental relationship to what light can do. I understood composition much more. Again, my teachers were extraordinary—I had an opportunity to learn from Late K K Mahajan on a documentary that he did here in Mumbai. It was a transcendent experience. It was an essay film called Loss [2000] set in New Delhi, Calcutta and Mumbai. He had planned to go to many different places in Mumbai to