‘seasoned’ would not have been possible without the efforts of a whole bunch of people who selflessly stepped up to help me along…
SCCE and my faculty of Visual Arts at AUD, for giving me the requisite liberty, freedom and support right throughout the mandatory readings, process of conceptualisation and more importantly directing my gaze and educating me, despite my sincere resistance. Thank you Shivaji, Santhosh and Shefalee, I have grown and enjoyed my time across this year at AUD.
Vivan Sundaram, your presence this semester as our mentor and guide has been AUD’s greatest gift to us. Along with your invaluable experience , constant sharing and insights whilst ideating, as well as highlighting the various facets of archives; this has helped us manifest our own. Thank you, Sir.
Anna Pinto, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kaustubh Das Dehlvi, Sudhesh Unniraman, Surojit Sarkar and Vani Subramanian, thank you for your patience through my long, rambling phone-calls, for sharing your thoughts, offering feedback, helping me to crystallise my own thoughts and to draw up a framework.
Anupam Chakravartty and Saransh Sugandh, thank you for the research and stories created and edited, and for making your entire professional networks accessible to me. You effectively helped me build and create ‘seasoned’.
My fellow students from AUD: Aastha Sindhi, Alisha Chatterjee, Arunima Rajeev, Arunima Theraja, Gautam Ecka, Harman Preet, Kumar Unnayan, Lavanya Khare, Parul Malik, Pramod Singh Negi, Nandan Rosario, Nidhi Kol, Shyam Rajan and Srajan Agadi.
Despite the pressure of your own final paper submissions and dissertations you came together to make this happen: from cleaning the venue, setting up the various areas, running the tech., to finally shutting it down, I am indebted to your generosity and our friendship.
Abhay, Kartikeya and Pawan for collecting and sharing the various audio stories.
Aamana Singh, thank you for the gift of the most beautiful invite one could have asked for
Lubna Sahaeen and Shradha Aggarwal for helping me devise the menu; and Ila Lumba and Rajjo at Laksh Farms for making it happen.
Manish & Shambhu for all the help in set-up and equipment at the venue.
Kaizad S Gandhi and Nupur Bhargava for the beautiful photo documentation.
Randeep Baruah for helping me build this weblog, editing stories as required and refining all that this site is.
And most importantly, my guests and participants: Aliya Ramaswamy, Anna Pinto, Anupam Chakravartty, Dr. Roy Laifungbam, Gurpreet Sidhu, Harman Preet, Indu Chandrashekar, Kaushik Dasgupta, Paranjoy Thakurta, Millind Wakkankar, Mousuma Sayeed, Muzzafar Ali, Sohail Hashmi, Sudhesh Unniraman, Vani Subramanium and Vivan Sundaram. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to come and spend time at AUD, sharing your numerous stories over lunch.
SEASONED 