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Don't call me "Aunty"
Copyright Mansi Thapliyal 2024
Updated Feb 2016
Topics Abandonment, Abortion, Abstract, Abundance, Abuse, Action, Adolescence, Adoption, Affluence, Aging, Animals, Arts, Aunty,personal project,woman,loneliness,past,childhood,memories,relationships,womenhood,girls,depression,voices,night,lanes,cat,indifference,fairy tales,lens,landlady,rent,house,11,new delhi,urbanisation,fight,struggle,son,], Beauty, Belief, Birth, Blind, Borders, Celebrations, Children, Community, Conceptual, Confrontation, Crime, Deaf, Discrimination, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Dreams, Drug Abuse, Dying/Death, Editorial, Emotion, Energy, Erotic, Events, Faith, Family, Fear, Feminism, Fire, Freedom, Friends + Family, Happiness, Health/Healing, Homelessness, Hope, Human Rights, Hunger, Illness, Isolation, Joy, Loss, Love, Mental Illness, Migration, Motherhood, Nude, Oppression, Orphans, Peace, Personal, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Poverty, Revolution, School/College, Senior Citizens, Sexuality, Sorrow, Spirituality, Texture, Violence, Water, Women's Rights, Yearning, Youth

These images were taken during my stay with Aunty. She was my landlady from 2009 to 2013 when I lived in Delhi. It was a scattered home, stale, crumbling unpredictably. There was a part of me that was nervous being around this woman. She talked to herself, hallucinated, walked around at night. And yet, I was curious because her personality was so distinct, her madness so intimate and yet disconnected from the world around her.

I ended up staying for much longer than I had anticipated.

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