India's population is overtaking China's and attitudes to birth control and religious belief are factors which affect this.
Independence was achieved by India in 1947 through the civil disobedience organised by MAHATMA GANDHI the "SATYAGRAHA" (defence of and by the truth) was a form of passive resistance non-cooperation which became most effective against British rule.
GANESHA a principle Hindu god represented as elephant headed and worshipped as a "REMOVER OF OBSTACLES". The wheel of life or "DHARMA CHAKRA" is an ancient Buddhist symbol and was recently added to the white band of the Indian flag and replaces the spinning wheel.
Two rows of the head of Buddha are the foundations for the story in images of the birth of GANESHA which is horizontal in composition and woven in and around the Indian flag. At each end of the painting are two arches which are superimposed with peacocks in display and many heads of GANDHI interlace the painting.
The qualities of the Indian painting needed to be more organic and have a variety of colour which implied the perfume of spices.

- Ian Chandler