R E D E M P T I O N
Is every human equal here? Who am I? Who are you?
After a certain point in history, humankind was divided into specific categories based on their physical and geographical features which created a significant imbalance — adding permanent senseless caste structures into this worsened inequality. Of all the regions of India, Kerala (Southern India) had and have the most rigid and elaborate caste structure.
During my trip to Kerala, I visited Parasinikadavu Muthappan temple in Kannur, a city in the Northern part of Kerala. Irrespective of caste, creed or religion, everyone is welcomed there to share the place to experience the spiritual comfort and relief and to have the offerings together, which was once (and still, in rural areas) restricted in the name of Untouchability (a practice of imposing social limitations on a person by the reason of their birth in particular castes). Muthappan is the deity worshipped at Parasinikadavu. In a society where discrimination and violence against the marginalised are viewed as usual, Parasinikadavu Temple goes against the ''traditions'' and the ''culture''.
I consider Muthappan and the Parasinikadavu Temple as a shrine that is thriving testimony of secular harmony, which I consider as a form of Redemption of hope and belief. Along with the video, journal and the prints, this project act as a protest against the casteism that still exists in India.