Pinak Banik is an artist and researcher from West Bengal. His practice concerns Ambedkarism, anti-caste history, emancipatory movements, the institution of art, art and society, cultural sociology, etc. His ongoing work engages in discursive, diagnostic engagements with productions of cultures of modernity, dismantling the power, ideology, and hegemony in its life as text-image-speech-performance in the Indian subcontinental context.