Project 01 / Documentary · Research
A Declining Commons.
A long-form documentary and research project investigating disappearing commons, ecological transitions, labour practices, and everyday life in rapidly urbanising regions of South India. The work examines how shared landscapes, social practices, and community infrastructures evolve under contemporary development pressures.
- Type
- Documentary Film · Research
- Year
- 2022 — Ongoing
- Role
- Director · Researcher
- Location
- Bengaluru, IN
- Medium
- Film · Photography · Field Audio · Essay
Sub-project · Washing Rituals
The Madiwalas of Bengaluru.
At the edge of a city becoming, a community has washed the clothes of strangers for generations — in water that is no longer theirs, on stones laid down before the boundaries were drawn.
Washing Rituals is part film, part field study, part oral history. Photographs, recordings, interview excerpts, maps, and historical context are layered together. The intention is not to render the community as an object of nostalgia, but to take their labour and knowledge seriously — as the disappearing technical practice it is.
Sub-project · Silent Shuttles
Weavers & informal textile economies.
Silent Shuttles studies the informal textile economies, the disappearing craft knowledge, and the hidden infrastructures that sustain everyday urban life — the small workshops, the unseen logistics, the inherited skill that holds a city together.