atma-nirbhar / self-reliant
Painting: Oil on Canvas Paper2021
On the first bite of our body, we opened to the rest of our suffering, realising, that meanings are transient, not eternal or sanatan.
The notion of ETERNAL SOUL drives the oppressed-caste folks to sabotage their-SELF in service of Eternal or Sanatan Faith. The pain of this ever-present suffering remains unspoken...
...as our hands are stuck in our mouths.
1. The earthen vessel denotes the SELF in the spiritually evocative and anti-caste folk lexicon.
2. In the COVID Pandemic crisis, Indian government commanded the suffering people to become ‘self-reliant’ as opposed to demanding from the State.
2. In the COVID Pandemic crisis, Indian government commanded the suffering people to become ‘self-reliant’ as opposed to demanding from the State.