Art in India’s foreign policy

Youlendree (Len) Appasamy, a South African Indian writer, collage artist and zine-maker is part of the Kutti Collective, a grouping of LGBTQ+ multi-disciplinary artists of South Asian descent, who are working towards increasing the representation of ‘desi’ South Africans in the country’s art world. Len and I discuss the role of art in deepening relationships…

Documenting the in-betweens

There’s this vast in-between space. Factoids, observations, stories and personalities that don’t make their way into research articles. Wandering in the periphery, they remain scribbled on the margins and stay warm in the confines of my field notes or transcripts. Some of these may contain kernels of truth, but wrapped in opinion, assumption and neglect,…