{"id":12435,"date":"2017-10-03T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=12435"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T08:49:26","slug":"brushstrokes-when-ganja-fell-in-love-with-mahua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-when-ganja-fell-in-love-with-mahua\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: When Ganja fell in love with Mahua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ganja-Mahua Chronicles is an art project that draws attention to the role that marriage plays in upholding India\u2019s caste system. By illustrating four stories of inter-caste love, project creators Venkat Raman Singh Shyam and S Anand highlight not only the resilience of people who break caste boundaries, but also society\u2019s violent reactions to these transgressions. The project\u2019s name comes from Gond folklore in which an \u2018untouchable\u2019 man and a Brahmin woman fall in love but are only able to come together in their next life when they are reincarnated as ganja and mahua trees. The other three stories in the project are derived from history, movies and current events.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the paintings and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.in\/2017\/04\/20\/this-powerful-art-project-recreates-stories-of-love-between-coup_a_22047645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ganja-Mahua Chronicles is an art project that draws attention to the role that marriage plays in upholding India\u2019s caste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":12445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1430,1,7],"tags":[1443,1345,1440,1441,549,25,1442],"class_list":{"0":"post-12435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-caste-and-sexuality","9":"category-categories","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-brahmin-woman","12":"tag-caste","13":"tag-ganja-mahua-chronicles","14":"tag-gond-folklore","15":"tag-history","16":"tag-sexualities","17":"tag-untouchable-man"},"menu_order":878,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}