Tales weaves together personal and historical references, incorporating Victorian satirical illustrations of the 1857 Indian Uprising, 18th-century phantasmagoria shows, Alice in Wonderland, and contemporary nightclub spaces. The work is a reflection on the artist’s mixed British Bengali identity, his mother’s brain cancer, and the process of reconnecting with his father after years of absence. These personal moments serve as an entry point to broader questions about cultural hybridity, colonial history, and transformation in relation to transcendental desire.