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…
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…
Between Memory and History: Reading the familial in Amitesh Grover’s ‘WOUNDING’
In his poem, ‘By the Waters of the Sind,’ poet Agha Shahid Ali writes of the Partition of India,…
परवाच एका कार्यशाळेसाठी मी ‘इंटेलेक्च्युअल बर्डहाउस’* नावाचं पुस्तक वाचत होते. ते पुस्तक मुख्यतः ‘कलात्मक संशोधन’ (आर्टीस्टिक रिसर्च) या विषयाभोवती गुंफलेलं आहे. पुस्तकात दिल्याप्रमाणे, दृश्यकलाकार चित्रं काढताना, शिल्पं तयार करताना संशोधनही …
Ramacharan Das Ramcharan Das is a door-to-door cobbler in the city of Kolkata. Lungi-clad, white-haired, Ramcharan has practiced the craft of shoe repair for many years now. Trained by his…
In the town where I grew up, dust was ubiquitous. It was also stealthy. It would steal in at odd hours and like legions of a multiplying army, settle on…
I often wonder why dust ‘settles’. Or why we expect it to ‘settle’. Is it because we forget? Is it because we stop caring? Is it because we are forced…
प्रगती दळवीने सर. जे. जे. कलामहाविद्यालयातून आपले शिक्षण पूर्ण केले असून ती अमूर्त कला (Abstract Art) आणि सादरीकरण प्रयोग कला (Performance Art) प्रकारात कार्य करते. प्रगती दोन मुलांची आई असून…
Introduction
Modelled Recycled Systems is a longue durée artistic and research project recording ship-breaking, its material waste ecologies and associated labour practices (and ramifications) as relates to global shipping accountability.…
‘धूळ’ म्हटलं की मला कमल देसाई आठवतात.
“गोगॅंने रंगवलेल्या या सावलीत उभ्या असलेल्या ताहिती मुलींची त्वचा बघ, तांब्याच्या कळशीवर धूळ बसल्यावर दिसतो तसा रंग आहे, तो जेव्हा याच मुलींना सूर्यप्रकाशात…
A few weeks ago, a dust storm hit this city lasting for a few hours. The storm engulfed the cityspaces—its streets, buildings, skies and, trees—by creating a kind of veil…