India, Oct. 22 -- Seventy-five of the 105 photographs planned for Raihan Vadra's exhibition at Delhi's Bikaner House were removed just hours before its scheduled opening on Wednesday, after the venue reportedly objected to the political nature of images documenting recent protests in the national capital.

By 7 pm, when No Idea Is Final opened to visitors, several walls were bare, with empty spaces and nails marking where the photographs had hung.

A catalogue displaying the removed works offered visitors a glimpse of what the exhibition was originally intended to showcase.

"They made us take them down. We spoke to them, but they threatened that they would cancel the show if we didn't take them down. So, there wasn't much of an option le...