The first major artist's book by Nick Sethi, an American-born photographer of Indian heritage living in New York, featuring 846 photographs taken over ten years throughout India. It is a book about the country's rapidly changing identity, focusing on gender, technology and the balance between traditional Indian and Western culture. The work is intentionally conscious of photography as a shared experience, and Sethi includes himself throughout, as photographer and participant; his intimate and complex images push at the boundaries where art, photography and daily life intersect. At its core the work deals with perception, challenging the intended meanings of images, symbols, materials and even relationships. Inspired by India's ubiquitous decoration and hyper-colour and by the serendipity of his encounters, his inquisitive approach encourages himself, his collaborators and his audience to find beauty, humour and absurdity in everyday life. The title is a traditional dish of boiled rice and lentils, eaten throughout the country and recently proclaimed India's national dish, which takes endless forms from region to region and even household to household: no single recipe or spelling is official, and its only constant is an ever-changing identity. In the same way the work never offers a single permanent viewpoint but an expanded, ever-changing self-portrait of the country, its people and the artist.