Snakes and Lotuses

A littul book I worked on as a final project for an Indian Literature course. :)
Through the texts I encountered I saw that snakes often symbolized men
and lotuses often symbolized women.
This is a poetic-imagery based interpretation of the relationships between the varied men and women through selected Indian texts.

Let us begin with a benediction

a prediction
a beautifully contorted contradiction

To shape without form.
To silence devoid of disdain.
To devotion despite disillusion.
To Divinity that exists
(if not in his fingertips)
then in everything that shimmers.

Shakuntala

Rani from Nagamandala


Vasantsena from "mrittakatika"



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I handmade the paper, the illustrations,poetry,collages and also bound it meself.
:)