It’s a space so quiet that only the fires in the evening crackle as the blue light of the dust mingles with a slight wet evening . The school wakes me up from the slumber, and makes me tackle the repressed children of the paite a tribe of the southern town of Manipur lamka .The official religion […]

It is important to know what is meant by an edge before we start writing notes from it. So the edge is a space of the liminal. It’s a space where the margins come in to define society or our mindscapes. It’s a space where all the beings feel vulnerable and a transaction takes place […]

When we work with waste material which looks useless to anyone, to the ordinary eye , it has the potential of being turned into wealth . The recycled material all turned into artistic craft. The potential of turning waste into wealth is a process of transformation. However, when the craft is combined with symbolic process or […]

The idea behind a small intervention of working with the teachers in Srinagar and elsewhere in Kashmir and the students was to dialogue on the gap between a teacher and a student. However the idea behind this intervention was that there had to be an understanding of trauma. Trauma that shapes our lives, our brains […]

So a small village in Punjab after many years of wandering with my wares. A simple five days brought vitality and joy to 38 children in a government school in a small village in Khanpur Punjab, Nava Shaher district. How did that happen? How did the creative arts with drawing, bit of drama, bit of […]

The history on this edge called valley or paradise is all about paradise interrupted because of a historical transmission of pain. It’s a place where the understanding of PTDSD is rarely understood by the oppressive structures and the victims themselves. The switch often takes place when the victim can become the oppressor, and the oppressor […]

The world of mask opened up in an incredible way in Sri Lanka and I thought the power in which masks could work with archetypes was incredible. The world of masks is the world of containers that contain the sorrow; the pain projects an image to the group that reflects back the pain of the […]