Nikhil Chopra's Yog Raj Chitrakar, Memory Drawing X, Part I combines the different artistic mediums of theatre, drawing, film and photography to explore the many layers of the city, mediate troubled histories, excavate personal memories and challenge the boundaries between the refined and the prosaic. Yog Raj Chitrakar is a turn of the century Victorian draughtsman based loosely on the artist's grandfather Yog Raj Chopra who was a landscape painter. The character has many faces: explorer, draughtsman, cartographer, conqueror, soldier, prisoner of war, painter, artist, romantic, dandy and queen. These are signified by elaborate costumes.

Like the early explorers the artist carries his belongings on his back venturing into the world to seek his fortune by chronicling the tenuous moments of ordinary lives and quotidian actions which are played out against the imposing grandeur of the city's historic edifices and its frenzied streets. The city itself becomes the set against which a variety of tableaux are staged.