Ashwin Badodiya draws the life of Buddha through wash paintings,  using translucent layers of watercolour he brings to life the myths that made Buddha question systematic oppression and discrimination.  Why salvation from the suffering of our illusionary lives was the only peaceful recourse in times of war and peace.  Ashwin paints Dr BR Ambedkar, the Boddhisattva of the Modern Age leading us out of the cudgels of caste,  using a Japanese technique introduced by Rabindranath Tagore at Viswabharati Santiniketan as a vocabulary of resistance against Western Classical forms of painting.  The Japanese wash technique in India became the lexicon of the Bengal School and they made Indian myths their subject.  Always depicting divinity, Nandlal Bose amongst his paintings had painted the visit of Ashoka's children to spread the Dhamma in Sri Lanka,  but the lives of ordinary people never saw representation in these forms.  By painting Buddha, the light of the masses and Ambedkar the constitutional saviour Badodiya changes that trajectory.