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Three Formats of Aural Writing

Published on 29 April 2025

This week had a number of highlights in terms of thinking through my research proposal. In a throwback to school field trips, our residency director took all us residents of Villa Sträuli to the Kunsthaus Zürich, to view a retrospective of Roman Signer, one of the most significant Swiss conceptual artists. We scattered across the …

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From the Ghor to the Gallery: Liberating the Feminine Realm in Indian Art

Published on 26 April 2025

From the Ghor to the Gallery: Liberating the Feminine Realm in Indian Art In one of his seminal essays, Partha Chatterjee (Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India) argues that Indian nationalism, in its resistance to British colonialism and Western modernity, constructed a rigid ideal of womanhood that ultimately reinforced a new patriarchal …

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Open Studio: museum of silence, a visual essay on intergenerational silence between women

Published on 10 June 2024

This week I had an open studio where I exhibited the tactile engagement I have been toiling with past few weeks here. I saw the Museum of Silence, that so far existed in a word document and inside the walls of my studio, now exhibited to the world.  Gracefully hung in the open studio of …

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Home and the world

Published on 28 May 2024

The week truly ran trepidations and renditions of Tagore’s Home and the World. The more I soared into the world, the more I unearthed the layers within. The more vastness I was led into, the more depth I was met with. I read this novel years ago, but on this trip, the tradition and modernity …

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Embroidering Silence

Published on 21 May 2024

This week, my research on intergenerational silence between women, took a rather tactile turn. I began to embroider the essay. The textiles, the tactility of a cloth, especially something as a saree- which does not come from any kind of isolation, but rather a very rich historical foregrounding of its own in the culture, present …

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Life update

Published on 17 April 2024

  Life update: This week, I made it to Winterthur, Switzerland as an artist in residence at the @villastraeuli, for 60 days, as a part of an art writer’s award from @takeonart and @prohelvetia_newdelhi. I spent days walking around this stunning city, exploring local roasteries, and textile art shops and befriending the stunning light in …

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