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This photograph shows a mid-range shot of a collective display of the five zines made by the author Mekuriiko for the exhibition ‘Queer Objects 1.0’ organized in Guwahati in late 2023. Several copies of each of the zine are placed, somewhat casually, on a low box-like display stand. The display is just next to a blank white wall of the exhibition hall. The covers of the zines read ‘Love is Love’, ‘The Queer Manifesto’, ‘Queer Objects’, ‘Queer Revelations’ and ‘You Will Die, And So Will I’. A sticky note next to the zines urges the viewers to flip through the zines. Photo credit: Mekuriiko

Storytelling through zines

By Mekuriiko

Mekuriiko writes for the first in a series of articles on the experience of the artists who participated in ‘Queer Objects 1.0’, a one-of-its-kind exhibition held in Guwahati in late...

This photograph is a daytime mid-shot of a bright red ‘jaba’ flower, glistening in the sunlight, growing inside a lane somewhere in Kolkata city. The colour of the flower contrasts with the cheerful green of the leaves of the plant. The grey wall of a building, a water mains fitted on the wall, and a bunch of cable TV wires form a rather mundane backdrop to the eye-catching flower and plant. Photo credit: Pawan Dhall

Poetry, Vartanama Mar '22

Verse magic on and off paper

By Rajib Chakrabarti, Pawan Dhall

Rajib Chakrabarti’s poetry mingled with summer colours helps Pawan Dhall make the most of his day

This main photograph is a daytime close-up shot of two large leaves growing on the forest floor at the Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary in Narendrapur, a southern suburb of Kolkata city. Both leaves show gradual signs of decay and one of them is nearly half withered away. The leaves are surrounded by a variety of other foliage, twigs and dried leaves. The decaying of the leaves signifies not just the end but also the cycle of life and rejuvenation. Photo credit: Pawan Dhall

Vartanama Dec '21

Hope . . . and doubt . . . spring eternal

By Pawan Dhall

A year-end piece on pain and rejuvenation, hope and uncertainty by Pawan Dhall

This is a photograph taken in dim fluorescent light from the balcony section of the Basusree cinema hall in South Kolkata. Basusree cinema is an important symbol of nostalgia and cultural history for the city of Kolkata. The photograph shows several rows of seats on the ground floor section of the hall, an aisle running through the centre of the hall, a passage between the front row and a stage, the stage itself on the far end, and a small lower portion of the screen on the stage. A few steps leading to the exits can be seen on either side of the stage, as also fire fighting equipment kept on both ends of the stage. The rows of seats are all empty, there is no film being screened, and no one at all can be seen in the entire expanse of the hall. The photograph has rounded corners. A white background behind the corners seems to give the feel that the photograph is held in place by photo corners in an old-style album. Photo credit: Pawan Dhall

Vartanama Sep '20

Nostalgic transference

By Pawan Dhall

Pawan Dhall on trips to parallel universes through archives and remembrances around them

Graphic shows a screen grab of a home video made by the author’s father, late Prakash Chandra Dhall, with digital liquefy effect. The screen grab has images of the author as a toddler in his mother’s arms (along with a few children from the neighbourhood) in the verandah of the author’s childhood home. But these have been modified such that the entire graphic appears to consist of wavelets of water with multi-coloured reflections. Graphic credit: Pawan Dhall

Vartanama Apr '17

Recurring dreams, random thoughts

By Pawan Dhall

Recurrent and vivid dreams of water have fascinated me since years, perhaps even childhood. I see water in my dreams as blue, black, transparent; still, moving, flowing; peaceful, playful, terrorizing,...

Tagged Under: Dreams

Storytelling through zines

Verse magic on and off paper

Hope . . . and doubt . . . spring eternal

Nostalgic transference

Recurring dreams, random thoughts

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