The DPDP Erasure Paradox: Why "is_deleted" is Illegal and SQL "DELETE" is Broken.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, renders soft-delete architectures legally invalid under Section 8(7), as updating visibility flags fails the statutory erasure threshold. While raw SQL DELETE queries risk breaking foreign key constraints and destroying audit records, the DPDP Act mandates actual erasure. Separately, the art market is experiencing a fundamental crisis, with many gallerists questioning their business models as the industry feels as if it has fallen off its axis.