More than 150 years after the advent of photography in India, do our photographers continue to see India through western eyes, as their colonial forerunners did? Are the glossy coffee table picture books of Raghu Rai, Raghubir Singh and others merely modern avatars of the exotic photo albums of Samuel Bourne and other 19th century photographers? And does the state too continue to document and use images of tribals and rural folk for its propaganda in much the same way as the British did?