The Times of a Ruptured India
Project done -
For - Royal College of Arts
As - Graduate Student
Model - Saumya Shukla
Photography - Kavya Nallabrolu
Special thanks to -
My tutors - Tracey Waller
Mireille Fauchon
My peers - Who helped me shape this project
The headlines that followed reflected a dehumanized and sensationalized narrative of a woman raped and then reduced.
My MA research-project, an experimental publication, titled ‘The Times of a Ruptured India’, seeks to reframe those reports. Through poetry and mark-making, this publication holds space for the woman’s humanity. The poems resist erasure. The strokes of charcoal speak in silence, both mourning and protest.
Together, word and gesture imagine a system where accountability is not distant or imposed but carried by each of us.
Through a form of cut-out poetry the narrative cuts through the sensationalized noise exposing the cultural architecture of rape, its persistence, its erasure, and its relevance to our current reality.