It was January 2002 and Seagull Books was preparing to set up its stall at the Kolkata Book Fair. The 9/11 attacks had happened just months earlier and the smell of blood and terror was very much in the air. Seagull decided to use the straw and clay forms on which the idols of the gods take shape during Bengal’s puja season, arranging the mannequins in poses of captivity and subjugation. Later, these figures were wrapped in plastic and stored in the bookshop’s courtyard... Read more
Violence visualised
Naveen Kishore’s ‘In a Cannibal Time’ is a photographer’s attempt to render in images scenes of intense agony and shame.
NAVEEN KISHORE, VAISHNA ROY, Frontline | The Hindu, June 1, 2023