Jagte Raho

Amshu Chukki looks at a protest that never happened

Amshu Chukki’s on-going interest in the political histories of Karnataka is routed via the site, more specifically, sites of protest scattered across the state capital, Bangalore

Abhishek Hazra on How to Hide Your Hegel

In the aftermath of the recent arrests of activists and writers, the Almora chapter of the Kankurgachi Hegel Club, an amateur group of Hegel enthusiasts, is worried and can’t help wonder if it is safe to keep Hegel on their bookshelves. They have initiated a three-pronged—that is, by heart, by scroll and by marginalia—project to hide Hegel

Mo’Halla and the film Jagte Raho on everything that doesn’t disappear

In this chapter of Jagte Raho, which features art and text by Mo’Halla, humans are caught in the big infrastructure of the big city. His work Nightfall in Democracy Heights makes jibes at and speculates on demonetisation

7 Isles Unclaimed or the Mumbai That Could Have Been

7 Isles Unclaimed digs into Bombay's reclamation, the colonial project that converted seven islands — the Isle of Bombay, Colaba, Old Woman's Island (Little Colaba), Mahim, Mazagaon, Parel and Worli — into something closer to the peninsular shape that appears on maps today.

Hazarding guesses with Sahej Rahal

In addition to the contemporary art world, Sahej Rahal’s work partakes among fan-produced material around Star Wars. The text for his exhibition Adversary relates a situation where Rahal bumps into the filmmaker George Lucas at Bandra Fort

Noticing and note-taking with Shubhangi Singh

The anecdotes that emerge from Shubhangi Singh's process of note-taking explore a wider framework of female existence and operation in the public sphere