Kolaj

“You know… ‘What will people say?’ is a question that exists only in our own minds. And we are the ones who answer it, too. People don’t really say anything, because ‘people’ have no face and no backbone. We are the ones who give them support and make them stand tall. They are nothing more than imaginary bogeymen…” — Her Story

“Everyone tries to resolve their own problems in their own way. The problem belongs to that person, and therefore, only they have the right to decide whether their solution is right or wrong! What I really want to tell you is something else. We shouldn’t be frightened by other people’s problems or the ways they choose to deal with them. We shouldn’t abandon a path simply out of fear that problems might arise.” — Canvas

Ultimately, human beings remain incomprehensible. In a country that celebrates the virtues of Shravan Bal, there are still wretched individuals who send their own mothers to the funeral pyre while they are alive. And in places where the fragile remnants of relationships are scattered by storms of sensual indulgence, a small but determined flame like Martha struggles relentlessly to preserve the bonds of relationships and keeps them alive within herself. — Martha’s Story

“Beyond this body of mine, I have a mind… Didn’t they realize that their abuse would wound it even more deeply? Didn’t they remember the friendship we had shared until then? Those who constantly lecture girls who have come of age on how they should behave, protect themselves, and remain careful—why did they never teach these boys anything? Why didn’t they explain to them that, despite having different bodies and shapes, we are all human beings in the end?” — Anguish

This is a collage of emotional upheavals within relationships—of pure love, jealousy, rivalry, and stark, unvarnished realities.