Born in August
A brutal death by rape and murder awakened the people of India, especially West Bengal where the incident happened in August 2024.




Author
Abhishek Maitra
A self taught artist born in Kolkata. He is covering the protest starting from the Day #1. As the issue is not resolved yet, the body of work is also ongoing along with the protest.
Curator's Note
The true nature of protest is probably repeating the same slogan again and again till the voice is heard well enough, It is spontaneous, unpredictable and repetitive. So is this body of work. The only curation done here is not curating it. The images are random as the protest is. The flow is tiresome to follow. So is for the people who are on the road for long now. It’s not an album of visual aesthetics of photographic marvels. It’s a piece of time we are living through but take our eyes off and continue to our comfortable life. Let it be the same for this body of work as well.