26/11
Capturing Mumbai's resilience after a terror attack in an artist book to fundraise for mental rehabilitation.
Awarded theCasey Shearer Prize for Creative Non-Fiction, purchased byPembroke Center for Women and Gender Studies, and housed in the permanent Special Collections of theJohn Hay Library—each of the books outlines a different episodic account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Through this purchase, thirty-three women who suffered from PTSD after the attacks were provided free-of-cost mental rehabilitation services.
Each book is dedicated to the different sectors of society that become inevitable casualties of political warfare and terrorism. They have been made on handmade paper purchased from a paper mart near the Taj: one of the locations of the terrorist attack. I didn’t go to the Taj Mahal Hotel for 12 years after the attack.
26/11, 2020
Personal Project, 6 weeks
Book design, collage, illustration, fundraising
Awarded the Casey Shearer Prize for Creative Non-Fiction
Purchased for the permanent collection of John Hay Library
Advised by Hiriam (Rick) Moody
Read 26/11 in URSA
View Yukti V. Agarwal Collection at John Hay Library