singh twins, welcome to hardtalk. now, you were born in england, but you took a trip for the first time to india when you were teenagers in 1980, and that's when you were first exposed to indian miniature paintings. you describe that as a turning point in your lives — why? well, the trip to india was a turning point in our lives for a couple of reasons, really. we were born and brought up in britain. we were aware of our indian heritage, but i don't think we really felt so deeply attached to it until we went to india and we had the opportunity to travel around india and experience that culture in all its diversity, and we really connected with that. and as part of that interest in our heritage, we also came across the style of painting called indian miniature painting, which is a very detailed, exquisite style of artwork full of satire and symbolism and narrative. and that was the style that we both adopted as our formal artistic language. and it was something that really set us off on ourjourney as professional artis

singh twins, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. you're very welcome, thank you.course, july 2022 will be remembered for the first time the uk saw temperatures widely in excess of a0 celsius. however, it's also been a very dry month — and in southern england, it's been the driestjuly on record — those records date back to 1836 by the met office. now, anywhere in the brown has seen below—average rainfall, but the darker brown�*s way below the average rainfall totals for this time of year, and 1—2 stations along the south coast have not seen any measurable rain. now, if you can see over the next few days, we won't see any rainfall either across the far south and east. the heaviest of the rain will be out to the north and west — that's because you're closest to an area of low pressure that's moving in at the moment. the isobars squeezing together, it'll turn pretty windy, and it will be quite wet as well. so that means it could be a pretty damp start for the commonwealth games in birmingham, but quickly brightening up by lunchtime, so an improving story. and that wil

my guests are the contemporary artists the singh twins, who have a major exhibition of their work herethese two traditions collide?