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Everyday FACES of Everyday People
Faces that Frame the Many Indias
Open to All
Facilitator
Exhibition Opening: 6:00 pm | Thu, Aug 28
Timings: 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Exhibition on show until Sun, Aug 31
Walkthroughs:
Thu, Aug 28 | 6 pm
Fri, Aug 29 | 6 pm
Sat, Aug 30 | 6 pm
Sun, Aug 31 | 6 pm
Panel Discussion:
Growing India’s Food: Crisis and Struggle – Sat, Aug 30 | 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Namita Waikar, Priti David, Shankara N Kenchanuru & Shalini Singh | RSVP here
Workshop:
Writing for Social Change – Sun, Aug 31 | 11 am- 12:30 pm
Priti David | Register here
Screening:
Punishing the Professor – Sun, Aug 31 | 4 pm – 5:15 pm
P Senrayaperumal & Aayna | RSVP here
What does an Indian face really look like?
The FACES initiative by the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) aims to illuminate the true diversity of the world’s most complex countryside. It’s the first (and only!) nationwide archive that maps India’s facial diversity alongside the countless ways people live and work across the nation.
Mainstream media often reduces India to familiar stereotypes; a handful of looks tied to broad regions. But the truth is far richer, more layered, and deeply human. From farmers in Kerala to artisans in Nagaland, from tea workers in Assam to shepherds in Rajasthan – FACES is a living portrait of rural India that expands our understanding of what it means to be Indian.
In collaboration with:
Facilitator
Kanika Gupta
Kanika Gupta is Special Projects Manager, People’s Archive of Rural India. She oversees the FACES project and the Archive of Adivasi Children’s Art. She also leads and assists the internship programme for PARI Education. Kanika is pursuing a PhD in English Literature from the SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.
