Habba aur Khatoon, Mix Media, 4000×3500 px, Art on bits, 2024.

As of March 2025…

World and Order. Visually, these two words seem like distant cousins. Yet, as it stands, we struggle to reconcile them. The world, a restless entity strolling through the glossy corridors of digital screens, slips, falls, and weakens. Meanwhile, the order, overwhelmed, endlessly attempts to reorder itself. The world is constantly cooking up ‘orders’—recipes for both news and sustenance—without considering the profound effects on mind and body.

This relentless production, often with questionable ingredients and manipulated narratives, leads to the world slipping and falling as the order loses itself in reordering. ‘Ghar ki khabar khabar hai aur baki sab bekhabar hai!’ (What is local news is news, and the rest is unknown!)—because when the larger order fails, only local truths remain.

The world anticipates fleeting new connections, while the order desperately safeguards its own existence. Perhaps, if we look at them closely, ‘order’ and ‘world’ resemble a great-grandparent and a great-grandchild—vastly different, yet inextricably linked.