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A late post, perhaps. Yet certain memories resist chronology because they continue to live within us long after the moment has passed.
Art has always occupied a profound space within human history—not merely as an aesthetic exercise, but as a political, emotional, and philosophical force that shapes how societies remember, resist, and dream.

This beautiful video, created by our dear friend Siddharth—an independent documentary filmmaker deeply attentive to the poetry of ordinary lives—captures fragments from the making of Alape Boshonto | আলাপে বসন্ত. Through his lens, fleeting moments of labour, laughter, exhaustion, colour, and companionship become part of a larger archive of collective memory.
And perhaps it feels important to return to these moments now.

We are living through deeply violent times—times where hatred is normalized, where fear circulates rapidly, and where human sensitivity is continuously under attack. In such a climate, the preservation of tenderness itself becomes a form of resistance. The search for beauty is no longer escapism; it is survival.
Hope remains the only language that allows us to continue.
Alape Boshonto, imagined by the young minds of Santiniketan alongside our beloved space Chayaghar, has always been more than an event. And Chayaghar itself has never merely been a restaurant. It is a cultural breathing space—where students, travellers, artists, workers, and strangers from different corners of the world gather to exchange stories, politics, art, affection, and imagination.

This year, I once again had the opportunity to explore my mural practice within this collective energy.

At a moment when authoritarian ideologies attempt to discipline imagination and silence dissent, art continues to insist upon another possibility of being human.
We have never bowed before fascism. And we never will.