Process Archive / Studio Bhoan
field notes & fragments from an itinerant studio
ongoing marginalia on image, memory, and place
“Billboards promising easy immigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK jut out through ample mustard fields.
Single-storey brick homes double up as canvasses for hand-painted mural advertisements promising quick visas. And in the town of Bathinda, hundreds of agents jostle for space on a single narrow street, pledging to speed up the youth's runaway dreams.”
Images from Punjab, a few years prior to Daksh leaving for Canada.
Migration, Punjab, Global Mobility
As a result of these riots, hundreds of Sikhs had to leave their homes and take refuge in relief camps or in other safer places. Many Sikh families lost their male members and thus suffered great emotional and heavy financial loss. The Home Minister made a statement on the floor of the Rajya Sabha that the number of Sikhs killed in Delhi during November 1984 riots was 2146; 586 persons were said to have been killed in other parts of the country during that period.”
*via Govt Of India - Justice Nanavati Comission Of Inquiry (1984 Anti-Sikh Riots), submitted in 1986
Migration, Political Violence, Historical Record
Language, Middle-Class India, Maternal Memory
Provisional, Jugaad, Boundries