A sketch from Sumona Chakravarty’s series ‘30 Days of Curfew’, which imagines how her hometown of Kolkata in India would be if it was under lockdown and curfew like Kashmir. Photo: Instagram/@sumonach
Imagine your city under a 30-day curfew – Instagram artist reacts to Kashmir lockdown
- No phones, no internet, no flights out, her home a prison – Sumona Chakravarty visualises how her city, Kolkata, would look if faced with situation in Kashmir
- Indian government ended self-government there and shut down communications. Her sketches are a potent reflection on residents’ feelings of trauma and isolation
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A sketch from Sumona Chakravarty’s series ‘30 Days of Curfew’, which imagines how her hometown of Kolkata in India would be if it was under lockdown and curfew like Kashmir. Photo: Instagram/@sumonach