“History does not give you leave to forget so easily”

-Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence

 

Love // Lost in Translation is an attempt to bridge generational gaps through material memory and poetry. Through this project, I’ve explored the way love has survived through significant historical events such as The Partition of India in 1947. Taking cue from Aanchal Malhotra’s Museum of Material Memory, I’ve documented objects that have been passed on through generations in a family of partition, and have explored the impact this tragedic event had on art. The scrapbook created for this project is a small collection of writings (ghazals, poems, nazms and journal entries) about love through different experiences - loss, regret, romance, political turbulence and innocence. Designed as a keepsake, it is also a physical representation of the way love has been passed down to me - through relationships, music, literature and poetry.