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Thanda Gosht (cold flesh) is a fiction short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto. The story is about the communal violence of 1947.[2] Ishwar Singh, fails to make love to his mistress Kalwant. She suspects him of infidelity and in a fit of jealousy stabs him with his own dagger. While dying, Ishwar Singh admits his crime getting involved in riots which broke in his village killing a Muslim family with same dagger and abducting a Muslim girl after breaking in their house and attempting to rape her, who was actually dead. Hence the title “cold flesh”.
I chose this as my title as this sends a direct message to the viewers.
Process work.
Felted lollypops with human faces. 
It depicts that victims are seen as objects or a source of pleasure by the harasser.
The deadly gaze.
Eyes represent the gaze of the harasser.
Half naked.
Women whether fully covered or naked still gets stared. Hence the eyes are of equal amount on both sides.
The house fly sitting on a baby face depicts the filth behind the innocent face or the trauma faced by the innocent victim, I chose to make house fly since it sits on filth and dirt.
Chained feet,
When a women steps out of her home, every gaze in on her. In this felted sculpture a women is trying to get out of a puddle of male gaze.
This traumatize face depicts that sexual voilence is not gender specific. Hence it does not have hair or lower body just a face of any gender.
A person of any gender on a pillow with a hand covering his/her mouth.
The society.
The donkey represents the society and blinded folded person as law, both watching the harasser i.e the wolf harassing the victim. I have place it inside a web as a barrier between the viewer and the sculpture since as a society we observe what happens around us yet choose to ignore it.
Hand embriodered and felted tapestry
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Sexual Violence is an Alarming issue yet a taboo in our society. Victims are hushed and the harasser roams free. As a textile artist I have tried Read More

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