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This is an archive of journeys to work and from places. Its a collection of items that mobility carries other than memories.
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Khirki and Hauzrani are sites for many mobilities, many borders are crossed and many lines are transgressed. This is a collection of those objects that carries the histories of such acts.
Khirkee Collective have been talking to people working in the public spaces in Khirki-Hauzrani since the inception of the project. While talking to them they are also developing a visual archive of their tools and their space.
Raju
Raju is a cobbler working in the locality for several years. Khirkee Collective had a series of dialogue with him and written about him in their magazine Mulaqat. The complete narrative is available at the Mulaqat blog. While talking to him they have also taken photographs of his tools that he had been using for his profession. These are mostly locally made traditional tools used by cobblers for many years. The work of a cobbler and its tools carries the impression of craftsmanship. There is very little change from its tradition.
Diya
Diya irons clothes in the locality. Pressers use the makeshift tables at a street corner as their workstation under a temporary trampoline cover. The traditional iron was extremely heavy and coal was used for such irons [Journeys-10/26]. Even today many pressers use coal iron. But some people like Diya uses an improvised version that consumes natural gas as fuel and iron is also much lighter.
The story of Diya is available on the Mulaqat blog.
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