Ripples in the Pond

Bharat Sikka

26 x 32,5 cm / 152 pages / softcover / cahier / 978-90-835197-6-0 / Note: Due to the way of binding, the edges of this book are fragile and will can be a bit dented In Ripples in the Pond, the artist undertakes a nuanced exploration of Makharda, a peripheral township on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal. Situated within a landscape marked by over twenty tranquil ponds, Makharda emerges not merely as a geographic locale but as a site of complex temporal and socio-cultural convergence. Through a process-based photographic inquiry, the artist renders visible the entanglements between memory, modernity, and the slow violence of infrastructural encroachment.