And other rare works wait to be viewed at an exhibition that opens a western window into Indian life

We've been there, done that.u00a0Chronicled ancient India in pictures, that is. But while we were at it, keen viewers from the West, too, were painting their own picture of our world. More than two hundred years later, it has come alive in the capital, thanks to the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA). Here's unveiling a rare collection of art from Victoria And Albert Museum, London, titled Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists.

Observatory, indeed: An Eighteenth century painting by William Simpson of Britain