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After illustrations, this artist is exploring love and romance through podcast
Updated On: 17 October, 2023 08:11 AM IST | Mumbai | Tanishka D’Lyma
Author Indu L Harikumar’s new project collects people’s stories on love and looks at how it manifests in various relationships
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Two panels by Harikumar. Pic Courtesy/@induviduality
Indu L Harikumar, an award-winning artist, author and educator, has been illustrating stories of love, sexuality, and relationships for nearly seven years now. These stories have been peppered across, as she terms them, people-powered projects where readers contribute snippets of their dating lives, relationships, ideas about intimacy, and experiences of sexuality. Through these projects, she has held space for nuances that these experiences bring with them — whether those are feelings of vulnerability, joy, curiosity, tenderness, and even carved out a safe space for people to open up about abuse and violence in intimate relationships. Over the years, with every story and taboo topic, Harikumar has created a body of work that has helped shed the tag of shame and ‘dirtiness’ from these delicate experiences. No wonder then, the author has amassed a large community of readers to engage in the realness of these relationships.
The Navi-Mumbai-based artist has nearly 11 such projects, including her 2016 series of 100 Indian Tinder Tales which looked into the online dating life of people in India; My Abortion Story in 2019 attempted to destigmatise abortion and explain the law and procedure of obtaining an abortion in India while in 2021, Let’s Talk Consent was about seeking, giving and respecting consent in intimate relationships. The most recent one, Cock-a-doodle, illustrated people’s relationships with their lover’s penis. All of these projects were illustrated and shared over Instagram. For her ongoing project — Handmade Love, the author switches to a new medium, podcasts.
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