• Kesri Devi with folk artists from different parts of India at a folk music session in New Delhi, March 2023. From left to right: Savita Kalbeliya, Kesri Devi, Geeta Parag, Talb Khan (photo: Raj Das).
    In the Concrete Jungle
    Essay
    Sunayana Wadhawan traces a map of stories from Kathputli Colony (Puppeteer’s Colony) in New Delhi to foreground the pressing concerns of artists and art forms that are displaced and delegitimized in the name of urban development.