Tribute to King Shakuntala.

Date - September, 2010

Banderban is one of the greatest natural heritages in Chittagong, Bangladesh. While taking those photographs I felt my emotion back which I used to relish in Kolkata last time. This time I discovered something more and that is the eternal relation between human and nature. I tried to create a sensible state of Nature at the background of human body. In my teenage I read an ancient novel, (Avigyanam Shakuntalam) ”The Story of Shakuntala”, written by Poet Kalidas in which the central character Shakuntala was always presented in attires made out of different elements of nature such as leaves, flowers, seeds, etc. Remembering that novel I got more inspiration to do these photographs series. That’s why I named this Tribute to King Shakuntala.

Scream

Date - July 2010
On a Usual day in Dhaka on 27th June 2010 I found myself seeing a video clip on one website. In that clip I saw some people were being punished to death by a good amount of people who were throwing stone to them. When I read the note below the clipping, I was surprised to see that their sin was love --- one did love a widow and the other two were gay. More than 100 people were throwing stone until the sinners were completely covered with blood.
For the time being I felt as if I were there and I were suffering for my love. At that moment I felt like crying my heart out.
With all my emotion, while I was doing my performance (Scream), I was scared by remembering that clip. I screamed from the core of my heart : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.........................