Intergenerational hatred and violence often transmute, with the historical past. On 16th August 1946, as India headed towards partition, Calcutta witnessed the biggest Hindu-Muslim riot, which led to a massacre of more than 4000 people causing the Great Calcutta Killings. It marked an apex point amid the series of mass-scale communal violence during that period, determining India's fate and giving birth to the extremism of religious identity. Additionally, it altered the demographic pattern. Trail of Blood is an attempt to visualize those collective memories of the city and its residents and build a bridge between the personal, the political, and the recollective past of the nation.

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This is my ongoing work and it was initially supported and funded by CPB FoundationFfotogallery/Diffusion for Imagining the Nation-State Grant and recently got the support of Generator Co-operative Art Production Fund by Experimenter Gallery and Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group.