‘Harappa Files’ at 24 Jorbagh
Sarnath Banerjee’s ‘The Daily Melancolony of a Heartburn City’ brought the curtain down on the art space
Updated At : 07:38 AM May 15, 2025 IST
Exhibition shots from ‘The Daily Melancolony of a Heartburn City’ at 24 Jorbagh. (Above) ‘Medusa: South Delhi Landlady’. Images courtesy: The Gujral Foundation
When the graphic novel ‘Harappa Files’ was released in 2011, Sarnath Banerjee’s commentaries on the post-liberalised country had felt like a searingly ironic albeit humorous statement, a satirical look on what was a plausible future. He had imagined a Greater Harappa Rehabilitation, Reclamation and Redevelopment Committee that was commissioned to conduct a survey of the existing ethnography and urban mythology of a nation teetering on the edges of seismic transformations, and its far-reaching ramifications affecting the fate of every man.
