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OFF THE SHELF @offsetprojects library KROMOSHO by Munem Wasif @munemwasif Photographs: Munem Wasif Publisher: Nokta Design: Navid Hasnain Cover Design: Loudworks 96 pages, English Kromosho (ক্রমশ)— meaning “step by step” in Bengali— mirrors photographer and artist Munem Wasif’s immersive approach to image-making. Shaped by his long-term engagement with the city of Old Dhaka, his works drift across disciplines, tracing the city’s layered histories, fleeting moods, and quiet transformations. This book expands on those narratives through conversations and essays by Samia Khatun, Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty, and Tanzim Wahab, alongside an exchange with Natasha Ginwala. Their reflections span photography, literature, architecture, and urban form, thinking around facets of artistic practices across South Asia while revealing the city as both a subject and a collaborator. Like Wasif’s images, Kromosho is about an enduring process— a dialogue unfolding between memory and place, reality and fiction, the seen and the imagined. Available at the Offset Projects Library and Bookshop @offsetbookshop . Visit us to spend some time with the book in our reading room

OFF THE SHELF @offsetprojects library Visit us to spend some time with the book in our reading room Sisnu by Soyeohang Rai Photographer : Soyeohang Rai @soysoyla____ Publisher : Offset Projects @offsetprojects Double sided printed accordion, screenprint cover. 2024 English In negotiating the complexities of his identity and its relationship to land, migration and gender, artist Soyeohang Rai travels to Nepal, the land of his ancestors, and is confronted by the rigidities of masculinity he is expected to conform to. This defining moment unravels an unanticipated journey to claim his own relationship with the mountainous terrain of the land, gaining strength from the ritualistic performance of maruni ( a dance form practiced by tribes of the Himalayan Belt and Nepali diaspora), opening himself to the feminine within through emotional and physical transformations and empowering the moment in the act of adornment. The maruni emerges and settles within Rai, demanding attention like the red hibiscus of his village and home. The deep colours of the flower remain the most desirable part of the plant, leaving the lush foliage of its bush often forgotten. As is the relationship of the arrival and departure of this flower, so shall the maruni continue to live within him and depart. Only to return again and offer in its warmth inheritance, autonomy and resilience to his being. Also available at

OFF THE SHELF @offsetprojects library Visit us to spend some time with the book in our reading room Guftgu by Offset Projects Edited and Curated by: Anshika Varma @anshikavarma Editorial Team: Moakshaa Vohraa @freshlimesodasweet and Radhika Iyengar @radhika_iy Designers: Ananya Khaitan @ananyakhaitan and Kaashvi Kothari @kaashvikothari Featuring Adira Thekkuveettil, Amarnath Praful, Arko Datto, Arun Vijai Mathavan, Cheryl Mukherji, Diwas Raja KC, Jaisingh Nageshwaran, Nandita Raman, Nida Mehboob, Uma Bista @thiruvadira @amaresthappan @arkodatto @arunvijaimathavan @cherylmukherji @diwasraja @nandita.raman @nidaa.mehboob @uma.bista Guftgu looks at the interrogations and practices of 10 contemporary photographers in South Asia presented as individual chapters designed in context to each artists’ practice and process. The works featured inquires on identity formation and history building through perspectives of gender, caste and inheritance among many others. The works incorporated in this curation expand on a growing visual language and offers a complex study of the region through personal responses by photographers to their contemporary climates. Printing support in different editions by @prohelvetia_newdelhi @photosouthasia Also available at

A chilling book, a reminder of the very difficult and disturbing days mostly in Delhi - I admire @ishantankha deeply for making this relentless record, against all odds- he gives us “Still life” this slim volume of 3 zines, with no text (other than the cover) of images that are more than a 1000 page novel. Self published and distributed @offsetbookshop . Buy two copies because you will want to share this with a friend . Better still 3 and give one to your local library or community centre.

Self Published, InqLab Books @ishantankha Box set of 3 zines 120 pages 1 poster 8x10 inches English ISBN: 978-93-340-9635-4 Edition of 400 *All zines will be numbered. Head to the link in bio to get your copy “I remember we were out of eggs. It was going to be a strange expedition because we had all been told to stay home. But breakfasts must be had. The shortest route to the market had been blocked off by large, no doubt virus proof metal gates. If it weren’t for the special logic of Resident Welfare Associations, 1 wouldn’t have found myself on the main road, witnessing the beginnings of a working class exodus, watching families forced to traverse hundreds of kilometres on foot to reach their rural homes. It was the partition but in 8K. Unsurprisingly, I spent the rest of that day and then the next many months, chasing the moment, trying to capture it as everything changed, probably forever. Why photograph any of it? Were the images meant to be a breadcrumb trail? A mnemonic guide to help us find our way back in case we forgot? In any case, I didn’t photograph the eggs.” - Ishan Tankha 📷 @tombomb_adil

SOLIDARITY PRINTS FOR PALESTINE Closes on 15th December 2024 Link in bio A group of Majority World photographers, art and cultural workers and allies are coming together to organise this fundraiser to contribute to The Owneh Initiative’s SOLIDARITY FUND. Collectively, we are trying to raise 100K USD to support the Owneh Solidarity Fund. The Owneh Initiative is a newly formed coalition of 30 Palestinian arts, culture and civil society organisations. Members of the Owneh Initiative have united to strengthen resources to support building agency and resilience in the Palestinian art and culture sector by moving away from global north funding that undermines the Palestinian liberation cause. You can learn more about the urgent work that friends at Owneh are doing: / These funds will support two main purposes at the moment: + Palestinian arts and culture organizations, ensuring their continued operations according to real on-the-ground needs without having to compromise their values and vision to comply with Western donors’ short-sightedness and politically motivated, often arbitrary, metrics. + Psychosocial support workshops organized by Palestinian civil society organizations, using arts as a means of strengthening and healing Palestinian children and adults who undergo trauma caused by the occupation on a daily basis. These workshops address immediate psychological needs as well as long-term healing and empowerment by helping participants reclaim and reconnect with their culture and identity which are facing constant threats of erasure. Prints will be shipped out in January 2025. Please contact us for batch orders or other queries: [email protected]

Today, Nov 29th is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. We are launching this fundraiser for our Palestinian friends and colleagues at The Owneh Initiative. You can learn more about the urgent work that friends at Owneh are doing here: /  Prints are now available for purchase on:  https://southsouthsolidarity.art/ Link in bio 👆🏽 PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! Like, comment, share to fight shadow banning 🙏🏽 The Owneh Initiative is a newly formed coalition of 30 Palestinian arts, culture and civil society organisations. Members of Owneh have united to strengthen resources to support building agency and resilience in the Palestinian art and culture sector by moving away from global north funding that undermines the Palestinian liberation cause. Collectively, we are trying to raise 100K USD to support the Owneh Solidarity Fund.  These funds will support two main purposes at the moment:   + Palestinian arts and culture organizations, ensuring their continued operations according to real on-the-ground needs without having to compromise their values and vision to comply with Western donors’ short-sightedness and politically motivated, often arbitrary, metrics.   + Psychosocial support workshops organized by Palestinian civil society organizations, using arts as a means of strengthening and healing Palestinian children and adults who undergo trauma caused by the occupation on a daily basis. These workshops address immediate psychological needs as well as long-term healing and empowerment by helping participants reclaim and reconnect with their culture and identity which are facing constant threats of erasure. Don’t have a credit card or online payment options? Want to save on shipping and collect your print in person? Want to place a batch order? Other questions? Write to us at [email protected] #photography #travel #catlover #friendship #love

We join our friends @themosaicrooms and many more to remain closed this Friday, 31st of May. As a photographer and an initiative, we stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their right to self determination. The violence in Palestine is inhumane and illegal. We request you to think, activate, engage, read and join us in the demand for justice for Palestine on this day and everyday.

Softcover Published by Reliable Copy and Sharjah Art Foundation 1st edition, 2022 English 144 pages In ‘Sculptor’s Notebook’, originally written in 1985, the artist Pushpamala N evaluates the artistic practice that she had been developing until then. Centred largely around themes of adolescence and womanhood, her sculptures had won her the Sixth Triennale Award and the National Award. While the sculptures take centre stage, in this dissertation can be found a longing to move further towards performance, humour, and play-acting—themes that the artist would go on to develop over the following decades. Both an artist’s statement and a notebook-format prophecy, ‘Sculptor’s Notebook’ charts the motivations, struggles, and desires of the artist’s multi-medium practice. Published here for the first time, ‘Sculptor’s Notebook’ was written as part of Pushpamala N’s Master’s in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. The complete facsimile of this dissertation is accompanied by a recent interview with the artist by Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian. @pushpamalan @reliablecopy @sharjahart

Softcover Published by Photo Circle 1st edition, 2023 English and Nepali 148 Pages Kishor Sharma has been visiting and photographing the Raute community since 2011. The Rautes are considered to be the last nomadic people of Nepal. They do not own land and have refused to accept citizenship documents offered by the state. Living in the Mist gives us a glimpse into their lives and their resistance towards being governed by a ‘modern’ world. It compels us to imagine the possibility of alternative and autonomous ways of living. @kishorksg @photocircle_np @valentina.abenavoli

NEW RELEASE Scroll III : Projects on Paper INR 1000 + shipping To get your copy head to the link in bio or visit our website at Editors : Aziz Sohail and Syma Tariq Designer : Zahabia Khozema Printed at Print Express, Karachi Featuring contributions by Nikita Dhawan, Lucas Odahara, Angela Wittwer & Arham Rahman, Indrakanthi Perera, Areez Katki, Sajan Mani & Antony Koothanady, Sarah Burney, Mythri Jegathesen, Naila Mahmood, T. Thajendran, Rajyashri Goody, Sonal Jain, Aziz Sohail and Syma Tariq Initiated by Aziz Sohail with support of Natasha Ginwala, Anushka Rajendran and Colomboscope team This issue of SCROLL approaches and tackles the porosity of language and its reconstructions through ideas and practice that cross and extend outwards from South Asia. We are grounded in this issue with a special contribution by philosopher Nikita Dhawan, whose cues on speech, silence and hegemonic norms of legibility contextualise these conversations. Entangled histories of language are showcased through the centering of lived experiences, be it Lucas Odahara’s collaboration with Indrakanthi Perera through a negotiation of linguistic exchanges between Sinhala and Portuguese, Areez Katki’s textual timestamps of Parsi identity, Sajan Mani & Antony Koothanady’s troubling of Malayalam or Mythri Jegathesen’s historical and close encounters with ‘plantation Tamil’. We believe in language’s capacity to form communities of care, opacity and nourishment, as marked by Rajyashri Goody’s ongoing meditation on food cultures of Dalit communities in India, and Sarah Burney’s literary friendship with the late artist Zarina. This issue is also a site for confronting difficult histories through non-hegemonic forms of representation via the vignettes offered by Naila Mahmood and T. Thajendran, and multi-geographical vernaculars of resistance, as expressed in the contributions of Sonal Jain and Angela Wittwer & Arham Rahman. In concert with Colomboscope’s embrace of polyphonic tongues and dissipated memory worlds, we explore the possibilities of centring language as part of a restorative and partial archive, as well as a community, lost, recovered and in flux.

Tasveer Issue II Buniyad-E-Bahar-E-Gulistan Pre-Orders : Estd timeline May 2024 1st Edition, 2024 Published by Tasveer Each zine contains a limited edition screen-printed postcard inside. Editors and Curators : Zeerak Suhail, Nad-e-Ali Publication Design : Zeerak Suhail Cover Design : Mahrukh Khizar Artists featured : Uma Bista, Kannagi Khanna, Farzana Hossen, Hadi Rahman, and Ameera Khan This eagerly anticipated second series by Tasveer ‘Buniyad-E-Bahar-E-Gulistan,’ showcases a diverse group of South Asian artists. Within these pages, the voices of Uma Bista, Kannagi Khanna, Farzana Hossen, Hadi Rahman, and Ameera Khan explore the intersections of gender, environment, and power through photography. The zine addresses our relationship with the earth, morphed by a narrative of dominance and exploitation. Each copy is printed on uncoated paper, boasting 28 stunning colored and 2 black-and-white plates that enhance the visual narrative. Tasveer is a pioneering photography publication initiative rooted in Lahore, Pakistan, positioned at the intersection of text and image.