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Once an ambitious upstart and now a reliable highlight of the art world’s calendar, Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 22nd in-person edition from Friday to Sunday with 286 galleries from around the world.

In the 90s, just as India’s Hindu nationalisation got into gear, formerly scrawny or chubby Bollywood stars began to flaunt glisteningly hard abs and bulging biceps; Rama, the lean-limbed hero of the Ramayana, started to resemble Rambo in calendar art and political posters.

They are the stuff of calendar art.

Instead he toyed with kitsch and calendar art, and based paintings on found photographs.

It could be the stupidest calendar art.