In Archana Hande's video installation room, we have a chance to stand with historical narratives at the juncture of fiction and non-fiction. Both her video works display the versions of treatment we mete out to our histories.
In one, a water supported reflection allows us to relook at the passage of time through a river as the storyteller - how the river connected trading routes with the Silk Route across time, how it shaped the literal and metaphorical landscape of the Western Indian subcontinent to how we know it today and who were the trading communities that were encountered in this journey, like the Parsi community.

We also view a reverse response to present-day understandings of histories, especially the uncomfortable, unknown parts. While we are distracted from overflowing information, our attention scattered, our backs turned - erasures of histories mandated by the State and self continue. These histories may no longer find their way back into books, records, conversations.
Who will we be then?