Shreyashi Bagchi, assistant curator, notes that the submission call is a part of their ongoing practice of making and furthering a people’s museum, and building a platform for these voices and stories. The call was put out a month ago for Partition-related poems. With an overflow of entries, they’ve extended the deadline to June 24 and expanded the theme to ‘unravelling, questioning and reimagining freedom in post-colonial South Asia’. Submissions can take the form of stories, poems, essays, comics, photo essays and videos, and will be published on the museum’s soon-to-be re-launched blog. They explain, “We realised there is a need for a space that enables creative and critical engagement with one’s personal histories.” And so the museum is currently working towards building a blog as such a space to explore and understand South Asian pasts, presents and futures. They’re focused on the process of building the platform to ensure an engaging and collaborative project.

Speaking about the importance of the endeavour, Bagchi says, “The museum offers a platform for people to tell their stories in their language, the way they remember it, and the way they want the world to remember it. It makes history plural, and hence more dynamic, accessible, inclusive and democratic. This is why documenting, archiving, and preserving people’s expressions and experiences is so crucial.” 

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