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Avatari Devi hails from Buxar, Bihar- Yes the same where battles have been fought in the past. She can sing as well but then she is no cuckoo.

Though all she has in her arsenal is her sharp tongue and some killer moves.

08/05/2026

The self is not enough.

Thank you for the lovely photography!

🤗❤️ thank you.

05/05/2026

Psephology mein first!

21/04/2026

To be held in a gaze that lifts us, loves us and yet grounds us, is an absolute privilege.

That was the gaze of these women and girls from prc i got to perform for, for the first iteration of ‘Ban, Carbon, Varna’. Thank you , ids and for inviting us and offering us the space to do what we did.

Thank you .hashiya for shooting, editing and putting together this video! I still can’t believe that you just did it! So much love. You make me speechless.

Thank you for your forever willingness to play along with the improvisations 😬. The music makes it all a bit easier.

Thank you for improving our sound. Again ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for just chugging along with all the cookies and the crazies. And showing up 🤗🤗

Thank you for the beautiful witnessing that you do… that subtle observation and addition 😊

Thank you Sujata ji, and for being such a wonderful audience. Looking forward to many more deep interactions.

Thank you .jaan for seeing and resonating in ways that i couldn’t think was possible.

Looking forward to sharing this lovely bite of unprocessed carbon soon. 😬😬😬

Prem se hi dekhte rahiye, aur kuch hai bhi nahi lene ke liye 🥰

Jaldi hi

15/04/2026

Bante, bante hi sab kuch banta hai,nahin?

It takes a lot of effort to build something- anything. You would know. After all, we are all always banao-ing one thing or another in our lives. Just like Dharti maiya, our dear mother earth, forever cooking carbon for us to consume. Like a non-stop kitchen. No? With a little help from minions in our world.
Minions whom we sometimes remember, on some special days and special months and sometimes not. You can always do an intensive revision. No?

But yes, it will be stupid to assume that the kitchen mentioned is a non-stop thing. It is not. But some straights and not-so-straights, go bigul-bajaoing, maane trumpeting, in places they have no business being- other people’s straits!

All in the hope that their private kitchens can keep running, on and on.

Ab usmein ban jale, kisi ka carbon jale ya kisi aur varna ka kuch aur.
(Now whether a forest burns or somebody’s stored up carbon or the homes of some lesser beings, what does it matter?)

Why should they bother?

Uff, I have a habit of side-tracking. Main track- there is a performance about all things good and positive this Sunday.

Sun- 19th April, 4.15 PM, Indian Social Institute, Lodi Colony

Come Come!

10/04/2026

क्या आपने कभी 91 लाख नाम एक साथ कहीं देखे हैं?

मैंने नहीं देखे।

ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा शायद ट्रेन के रिज़र्वेशन चार्ट पर कुछ चार-पाँच सौ नाम देखे होंगे,

या शायद उससे भी कम ही होंगे।

हँसी आती है, नहीं?

पिछले साल बोर्ड्स , वही दसवीं और बारहवीं के इम्तेहान में 42 लाख बच्चे बैठे थे,

यू पी एस सी में 13.4 लाख,

ए आई ट्रिपल ई में 14 लाख से ऊपर थे और डॉक्टरी के लिए २३ लाख,

इन सबको जोड़ कर कुछ 92 लाख नाम होते हैं,

चलिए कुल मिलाकर 91 लाख से एक लाख ज़्यादा थे।

सोचिये अगर एक साल ये सारे नाम मिटा दिए जाते।

किसी का रिजल्ट नहीं आता।

जैसे तुमने कभी इम्तिहान ही नहीं दिया हो।

बवाल मच जाता।

ख़बरें आग पकड़ लेतीं, ज़ुबान कारतूस बन जाती

जो अपने आप को मिडिल क्लास कहते हैं

वो सड़क पे उतर आते

“हमारे भविष्य का सवाल है।”

हम ये कहते, दोहराते, और दोहराते ही रहते।

किसी जप की तरह,

और कहते हुए कभी लड़खड़ाते नहीं ।

ग़ुस्सा बेल की तरह गर्दनों पर कसा रहता

गर्मी आकर चली जाती और बारिश ज़मीन को छूते ही उड़ जाती

इतना तप।

शायद कोई मूरख कहता कि बच्चे, आपको ग़लत याद है,

नादान हो, हम तो तुम्हारे शुभचिंतक हैं, ये सब भूल जाओ,

हम जाँच-पड़ताल करेंगे,

कोर्ट-सीबीआई खेलेंगे,

सब कुछ ठीक हो जाएगा।

ये नयी ऊँची आवाज़ क्यों ढूंढते हो?

बस, हमारा ये जंतर-मंतर पढ़ते रहना।

ये पढ़ते रहना।

घी की तरह ये बातें गिरती

बसों में, दफ्तरों में, सड़कों पे

हर जगह लपटें फैलती - धुरंधर सी हवा होती

सिनेमा घर बंद हो जाते

और तुम और मैं मुंह ताकते

मगर जवाब मांगना बंद नहीं होता

थकते, गिरते, पिटते, मगर उठते ही रहते

91 लाख नाम आज भी मिटे हैं

91 लाख नाम आज भी मिटे हैं

“हमारे भविष्य का सवाल है।”

आप पूछेंगे क्या ?

- swaja/ Avatari

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01/04/2026

***rlit ***rart

Who holds the key to our visibility?
Who unlocks the ways in which we will be seen or not seen?
This year the TransDayofVisibility holds a special relevance.
The law goes far.
Memory, further.
Then there are our own need to hide and reveal.
I explore in this piece -Hide of my hide.

Deeply thankful to for collaborating on this with her glorious artwork- part of the collection, Sediments (2019).

We all arrive into our transness in unique ways yet the journey is a shared one, an incandescent overlap of paths.

I hope to keep mapping.

To our q***r delights and griefs.

01/04/2026

Mard ka dard kaun sunega?

24/03/2026

Aapka bhi number aa jaayega

26/10/2025

You were kind, erudite and so wonderfully lost.

You introduced me to small libraries, .06 , the beauty and terror of French as a language (and more), poetry groups and what would make a Sambhar more mallu.

You were one of the first champions of Avatari.

You held joy in your body, laughing so easily, making my jokes sound funnier than they were.

A performance could just be a conversation with you and it would hold. I would be held.

Of course, we had our lows. I was unkind and arrogant.

But then again, when I reached out, you looked past that.

For the past three years, you fought valiantly, with grace and an imagination, that I can only associate with you. There are so many ways in which you won.

I will always seek your writing, your wisdom and your laughter.

My Alsi, Elsi, Elsa.

P.S.: Have borrowed a book from your library, hopefully for a very long time.

15/10/2025

It was new. It was exciting. It was breathless (behind the stage) 😬
I always feel immensely grateful everytime that I get to be on stage.
Being up there was my first love and now that I have come back to it, I just want to keep building.
And that’s what we did- visuals, layers, white and green, anonymous beings and beings made anonymous, and of course, Sakina and her ‘Whale P**p and other stories’.

A huge thanks to who just came everywhere with me- from the tailor to the rehearsals to the D-day! for that magical touch right when the nerves are about to come apart but the face must come together for the light, curtains and a hell lot of patience for much behind the scenes
for the lovely videos
***r for inviting Sakina into my stage life
for that touch of salt and that touch of air
And everyone else at

The reviews have been kind and instructional.

As I said, forever building.

Salon of the anonymous in collaboration with the oddbird theatre at the Friends of the Oddbird festival.

Images: Thank you and

11/09/2025

Firsts are always special.

What a delight it has been to conceive this design, the interspersing of narratives and creating layers with anonymity.

As always, my dear dekhne aur sunane waalon, there will be music, drama, some shared joys and griefs, and of course, Sakina, whose story is central to it all- Whale P**p and other distractions.

It has been a pleasure bringing alive Episode 1 of Salon of the Anonymous!
Thank you 🥰

House opens today evening at 6.30 pm at, you guessed it, friends of oddbird festival at oddbird theatre.

Aaiye, aaiye! Rulaayenge kya? Wo to hamara kaam hai, nahi?

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