Lunch with BS: Meet art historian Naman Ahuja, a curator as sleuth

Ahuja is outraged at the neglect and lethargy around him yet thrilled to be working in India where ancient objects are still being dug up and there are great discoveries to be made

Naman Ahuja tells Anjali Puri that a new exhibition at the National Museum is “an antidote" to Indian insularity and explains why his work makes him feel like "Alice going down the rabbit-hole everyday”

It is less than two inches high, and if you walk too quickly through the India and the World exhibition that opened this month at the National Museum in Delhi — after having been seen by 200,000 people in Mumbai — you might just miss this agate bull with golden horns.

But not if you have heard the exhibition’s co-curator, 43-year-old Naman Ahuja, talk about this object, which