Dancer Mandeep Raikhy s The Secular Project explores secularism as a cultural practice through bodily rituals On the road for the past three weeks, with a dusty car for company along with two cloth banners in English and Hindi asserting SECULAR INDIA/ धर्मनिरपेक्ष भारत , Raikhy states that his journey is a search for a secular ritual for the body, in a country fractured along communal lines. Ranjini Nair February 02, 2021 10:32:56 IST Secular India Project by Mandeep Raikhy. Instagram/thesecularproject
In Queen-size , Delhi-based dancer Mandeep Raikhy moved outside-in, challenging the viewer’s public preoccupation with what unfolds in the privacy of the bedroom. The outside world was brought into the soft, consensual intimacy of the bedroom, to witness how it gets pierced through by the political. It took the spectat