The milieu of "Ghazal: Skin;" outcast lovers, the erotic spiritual, separation and exile; are familiar themes imbued with greater urgency in the wake of moral policing, identity politics and rising authoritarianism in India.
The ghazal traverses various realms: mountain, desert, ocean, sky, city. In each couplet there is a simultaneous sense of distance and nearness, finally coming full circle by joining palm to palm to palm in the triple entendres of the final couplet, braiding together nature, body and act.
Sophia Naz on "Ghazal: Skin" |
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