• This print and Reddy’s other work Germination, also on display in this gallery, were part of a 1987 exhibition featuring prints by Indian artists, organized by Charles Stroh. Stroh did research in India on contemporary printmakers between 1984 and 1985. At that time, he was a professor of art at Kansas State University and head of the art department. After its display in Manhattan’s Union National Bank, Stroh’s exhibition toured the United States for two years.

• In the catalogue for his exhibition in Calcutta, India, in 1984, Reddy wrote the following about this print:
“A row of figures in full applause: there is a break in the middle of the row, and two figures in clash. I thought of Mohammed Ali’s fight.
I structured the whole plate with a metal ruler and a dry-point needle. With a vibro tool I built all the standing figures. (Just the opposite way of working a mezzotint.) Then I carved the details of the figures with machine grinders.”