Looking from the margins: The Art practice of Madhukar Mucharla
Contemporary Indian artists are producing the most critically engaging artworks in recent times. Nonetheless, the common kind of art one…
My most recent body of work began taking shape when the nationwide lockdown was announced in March 2020. Since then, I have been thinking about home being a limitation of…
Leela
1.
“Are you in Chennai? Can you come? Leela Samson is dancing. I’ll send the invitation. I’ll send the directions. Will you find your way? Come.”
Drawn, I went.…
Woman A woman Is A tightly Shut Door Talking forever Through The cracked walls Of Her wounded Silences *** Deadlock Her eye, A frozen lake.…
मला पूर्वीपासून ओळखणारी माणसं अजूनही फोटोग्राफर म्हणूनच ओळखतात. पण अलीकडे मात्र ती माझी प्राथमिक ओळख नाही असंच वाटायचं. जरी मी फोटो काढायचे तरी कमाईचं आणि व्यक्त होण्याचं माध्यम म्हणून ते…
…what if we can start reading ‘a subject’ without its prepositions, isn’t it like tracing a loose trail of a gloomy vision without knowing the source of the beginning? Our…
There is a photo of Premchand in front of me, one where he is being photographed with his wife. He is wearing a cap of some coarse cloth, a kurta,…
Bulwark of resistance : A photo essay on farmer’s movement
Citizens should stop creating obstacles for the government. They keep finding reasons to protest. Against lynching. Against sexual harassment. Against…
In the world we live in, the term ‘barrier’ bears a negative connotation: it is understood as something undesirable, a situation that needs to be resolved, an obstacle that must…
One
There was a young camellia tree besides a road in the mountains. Risuke, the cowherd, tethered his cow to it. Kaizo, the rickshaw puller, also kept his jinrickshaw*1 at…
A powerful blow struck him on the nose and he collapsed before he could protest. The blistering tar of the highway road made his body writhe and slither. His breath…
त्या दिवशी नशापानामुळे डोकं जबरदस्त चढलं होतं. त्यामुळे संध्याकाळ बिनकामाची गेली. लेख लिहिणं हे माझ्या चरितार्थाचं साधन आहे. खरंतर त्या दिवशीपण मला एक तातडीचं काम आलं होतं. एका छायाचित्रकाराने काढलेल्या फोटोला साजेसं असं…