26 / 11 Bombay (Echoes of Existence)

Rendered in stark chiaroscuro, the triptych stages a passage from witness to aftermath to uneasy ritual, where pale bodies and masklike faces emerge from a grainy darkness as if memory itself were being etched into the paper. The left panel’s reaching figure feels both compassionate and complicit, while the central swarm of skulls and crows collapses space into a claustrophobic field of omens, turning the ground into a ledger of losses. In the final scene, a solitary caretaker cradles a small creature before a faceless crowd, transforming grief into a public ceremony and suggesting how tenderness survives—fragile, contested—inside collective dread.