Bankura

Madhabendu Hensh


Project Period: One year and six months

For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Productions that will focus on the creation of a photobook in the Bankri dialect, titled Saru Suta Bel Phuler Mala ​(Thread-like Jasmine Garland) which is taken from a popular tusu song. This project is a form of protest for the Project coordinator who is trying to create the first photobook in Bankri dialect to represent a region, its people, and their language which rarely finds representation in the mainstream public discourse. The outcome of this project will be a first of its kind photobook in Bankri representing the life of the people of rural Bankura and Purulia. The Project Coordinator's deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be documentation materials from the project, and the photobook. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, publication, hire of equipment, consumables and purchase of books.