This lecture is interested in how public wall art on Tulsi Pipe Road in Mumbai relates to and with its everyday gazers. Through public wall art, the wall of Tulsi Pipe Road is being readily transformed into a repositoryof post-millennial societal memory as the white paint is subsumed by colours, bold images and social messaging in English, Hindi and Marathi. The images are transitory not least because of the white-washing, a performative and curious mixture of "uniform" beautification and equally, a censorship of sorts. The transitory nature of the artwork is not the only movement which finds inspiration in the white tableau of Tulsi Pipe Road; from this same wall, the people of Mumbai are called upon. Based on fieldwork from early 2016, I explore how the wall art interacts with its passers-by through the vehicle of social messaging, drawing on recent social memory and calling people to movement. Analysing a recently installed mural in homage to the late Abdul Kalam and a collection of three panel murals which explore post-millennial experiences of being a woman in India, the lecture posits that 'darshan', a mode of seeing usually enacted in sacred realms is being used in non-dharmic and moreover, secular situations of "seeing". I suggest that darshan might at play in the consumption of the public wall art of Tulsi Pipe Road and thus I discuss the implications of how older Indian aesthetics of visuality are shaping the ways in which we see (in) New India.

    Dr. Emma Dawson Varughese is a global cultural studies scholar and her specialism is India. She is the author of *Beyond The Postcolonial* (Palgrave, 2012) and *Reading New* India (Bloomsbury, 2013) and is a co-author of *Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation* (Palgrave, 2015). In 2016 *Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial receptions of 'weird' narratives *was published by Routledge. She is currently writing a book on visuality and the Indian Graphic Novel in which she explores "new ways of seeing in New India". Shedivides her time between the UK and India. See her work at: www.beyondthepostcolonial.com