At the premiere screening of Bandit Queen in Delhi, Shekhar Kapur introduced the film with these words: "I had a choice between Truth and Aesthetics. I chose Truth, because Truth is Pure." To insist that the film tells the Truth is of the utmost commercial (and critical) importance to him. Again and again, we are assured, in interviews, in reviews…

2018 | Photography | 3 x 4.5 feet

I. We were alone most afternoons. On one of them, we searched my room for candles. We found one that I liked: white with Colombian coffee beans clustered around the bottom. “Eat it,” I said. “No,” my brother said, furrowing his eyebrows, turning away. “Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it.” I backed him into a corner with the coffee end of the…