Today, the ongoing war and tensions in the Middle East, despite hitting India’s stock markets, have not rattled the domestic art market “at this point”, says Roshini Vadehra, director of New Delhi’s Vadehra Gallery. She characterises the sustained demand with the example of her recent solo exhibition, of the Mumbai-based painter Atul Dodiya. His 12 new large-scale oils, which feature people expressionlessly (sometimes from behind) looking at art, “were priced about 20 to 30 per cent higher than his last show [between $80,000 and $100,000 this time] and sold out a week before the exhibition,” she says.