On a road trip to Ladakh last year, I learnt about “suture zones” during a conversation over dinner with a mutual friend, a research scholar studying geophysics. In geology, a “suture zone” is a place where two tectonic terrains meet, i.e. an area where chunks of...
Sudeshna Rana
Sudeshna Rana is an independent writer, editor and researcher based in India, working in print and digital publishing. In 2022, she won the South Asia Speaks literary fellowship in creative non-fiction to investigate Dhanbad, a mining town where she grew up. She is also the co-founder of Poorvanchal aur Palayan, an online archive on migration in and around East India, supported by the 2023 Serendipity Arts Virtual Grant.
Time and Space: Sarker Protick’s Photographic Continuum
Photography as a medium is often tied to the act of witness. Photographs become conduits of memory, or reminders of the places we inhabit or carry within us. While photographs are about recording that which is ‘seen’, they gesture towards the unseen, the locus and the...

