Catalogue of solo exhibition by Sachin Karne at Sakshi Gallery in 2007. 'Sachin Karne's new work speaks of the havoc that is played with our lives. The artist does not take us on a guided tour to those havocs, though. He instead picks one such incident, the destruction of the Buddha statues at Bamyan. "It was most disturbing... a prelude to more destruction and a marked beginning of a tragedy", asserts Sachin. The Buddhas were destroyed in early 2001, while Sachin painted the incident much later, in 2006, when he returned from a sojourn to Laddakh. By that time, the immediate wounds of those magnificent Gandhara edifices could have been blurred, and Sachin's own experience of a burning Baroda through the 2002 riots in Gujarat might have taken a back seat. One needed this distance from the course of events, to relocate them in the course of life.' - extracted from essay by Abhijeet Tamhane. Artist biography is provided in the catalogue.