Sand, Skin & Sky: Home through three migrants

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have gone through a radical change. While the house here in Bombay

Sand

Home, Beyond Frameworks

Through these years, while some habits like these haven’t changed, some seems to have imbibed Kutch in its presence through habits recreated over time, the old house in Kutch was redone three years ago. The new walls and a layout that fits ideal for a city. There is little or no resemblance to Kutch architecture. As a matter of fact, if you were to see it in a photograph, you would mistake it for a house in Bombay.

Shifting Sands, 1967

house stands tall, a three storey structure with marble flooring, cement

Nem Kalyan, Bhadia, Kutch

In a similar manner that habits and memories are carried from our homeland to our host country, the migrant over the years creates a new Morning breakfast rituals, Rotla, Makhan & Chai

set of language that borrows from both the spaces. After more than 50 41


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