Taboo, desire and a dead woman’s saris layer the lives of women who board together in a widow’s household. A cinema fan encounters his idol and the cruel, fragile world that creates and holds her. A child wonders if the discarded siblings who had once lain next to her in a petri dish were touched by the family bond that she struggles to make sense of. Lovers decide to float away into a world where the disappointments of domesticity and stale love can ...
This publiction accompanies the interdisciplinary project body.city: new perspectives from India, realized by the House of World Cultures, Berlin, in September-November 2003, and developed in close cooperation with the Indian curators Geeta Kapur, Jyotindra Jain, Anuradha Kapur, Ravi Vasudevan and, from Germany, Sandeep Bhagwati. The body.city project provides the House of World Cultures with a platform for encounter and dialogue, generating discussion on the key ...