This morning I saw in the Mumbai locals, an elderly couple possibly on a rare visit to the city. The woman sitting close to her husband, both bodies conscious of their marginality, discomfortingly occupying the space even when the third seat was empty. The woman looked around with amazement, her twinkling eyes hinting me to see other women in the passing train, with wonder. The man, seemingly focused towards his destination, holding his composure, with a plastic bag bearing the picture of our current prime minister.
The overall scene triggered how a certain orientation of space, a social imagination of the self, and the societal expectation of the body rests together in our corporeality and it gets released in the material world...
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