The project “Scars and Scratches” was conceived in 2020 by three people from India, belonging to three different walks of life. The people are Soumali Roy, who is a home tutor and deeply engages with creative aspects like waste-craft, weaving, and painting; Amit Singh, who recently completed his high school and is an aspiring fashion designer; and Sayan Dey, who consistently oscillates between the hardcore academic and the free-flowing creative space.
The purpose of building this project is to bypass the suffocating parameters of academic publishing and generate a warm and welcoming space of caring and sharing, through a set of visual narratives (accompanied by short descriptions) that would unpack existential narratives of painful existential challenges: queerness, motherhood, feminine being, caste hierarchies, gender-biases, toxic masculinities, urban dreams, and many more.