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ANUBHA BHONSLE

REPORTAGE, BOOKS, MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING

  • About
  • Books: Mother, Where’s My Country?
  • Reportage: Gender
    • FGM
    • The Girl Without a Face
    • A Repressed Story Of Rape
    • Conflict: Jammu & Kashmir
    • Gender, Power, Violence
    • Children of Conflict: Manipur
  • Reportage: Manipur+
  • Documentaries
    • My Child Is Gay
    • No Country for Children
    • The Muzaffarnagar Riots
  • Fellowship: People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)
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Everytime I start a new project or a series or a show I make it a point to wear this sari. My former boss @ritkaps gifted it to me a few years ago with a note that said “spring is for new beginnings”. I have reimagined that note and this sari to be a sort of talisman. I wear it and just jump into the deep end. Whether am fearful, or anxious or stressed I manage to hold on and come out on the other end feeling ok. I have kept this sari very carefully but it has stains and marks that have stayed on. And I always have such a telling story for each of the marks and where all the sari has been. I wore it yesterday to kick off the first in a series of videos (and reportage) I’ll do related to the elections. And somehow I feel #ihavegotthis notwithstanding days and moments of utter confusion and chaos. #saree #sareeinspiration #instasaree #work #elections2019 #mentalhealth #superbosses This man, Arun Malik, army man, iron man, holding his unit flag—12 Guards—also the unit he commanded. Arun at finish line of the @ironman.oman If you have friends like these can you really afford to not wake up at 5am and get at least an hour of workout before you start the grind? Arun, you are such an inspiration, in all walks of life. PS: Am making it my business that this man is flooded with sponsorships this year. He is doing it all by himself. #ironman #ironmanindia #fitness #willpowerfitness #indianarmy #armyman #ironmanmuscat Who you looking at? #streetart #graffiti #artforall
It was more than a few months ago that my dear friend @jasmeenpatheja sent me this t-shirt. It lay in my cupboard stacked between loved and unloved clothes. I saw many women wear it in the interim and articulate so effectively what the words on the t-shirt (अकेली आवारा आज़ाद ) meant to them. They spoke for me too. I agreed with everything they said but I couldn’t embrace or own those words in the truest sense possible. I did not want to be called अकेली it meant for a long time—to be alone—and it creeped into loneliness, isolation, void, gulfs. It wasn’t physical solitude but as Olivia Laing says it is a state difficult to confess. The journey to think of अकेली as self, fulfilled, complete, enough, unhinged, not a state of lack has been a long and continuous one. Am sure it’s true for men as well but female aloneness, as Laing says often carries with it a whiff of strangeness, deviance and failure. And to overcome that miasma and to shine this bright needs a post, a selfie, a pat and a thank you, J. I go back to our chat by the bench in Philly so often. To anyone on this journey, happy to help but it’s all you eventually. I’ll write a post on the other two words the next time I wear this t shirt and feel this way :) #akeliawaaraazaad #blanknoise #mentalhealth #friends #solitude #alone #olivialaing #loneliness #sisterhood #female #single Kids, these days. Always on their phone. #streetart #artforall #mural The walls that the camera creates. #streetart #artforall
This look of endless love is reserved for just one, one alone...........................................................................................................................................................................................soft, warm, freshly baked bread. #breadlove #spring #springbrunch सर्दी की धूप #streetart #artforall #mural #jomalone can you bottle this fragrance!

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Go on, take that break from a 9-5 job

Go on, take that break from a 9-5 job

Of uncomfortable spaces

Of uncomfortable spaces

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