Mithu Sen on I Am Ol Chiki
by Mrinalini Vasudevan Critical Collective (CC): Your participation in the Santiniketan leg of the debut edition of the Bengal Biennale represents a return to roots in many ways. A return to your alma mater (Kala Bhavan), and with a project that re-engages the campus town’s connections with the Santal villages, which have
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by Mrinalini Vasudevan
A thinning canal, infested with snakes, insects and predatory plants, polluted by growing piles of waste, and winding its way through a poor, peri-urban neighbourhood seems like an unlikely subject for an art project. Yet, it is one such location at Khudiram Pally, Sarsuna, on the outskirts of
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