Elsewhere was built to shorten the distance between a person and the thing that moves them. We commission new work. We put grants and scholarships into the hands of young artists. We make events — vouched for by some of the country’s finest — where one art form turns to another and begins to speak. The Foundation takes its name and its temper from the author and playwright Swadesh Deepak (his story sits in the Swadesh Deepak section). Like him, Elsewhere will not stay put. It answers to no single language, no settled form, no age bracket, no obedient ‘message’. Picture a kaleidoscope mid-turn — rooms, makers, forms and ideas falling into new colour against an India forever rewriting its own culture.