When protest becomes memory: Pallavi Nayak and Varna Sri Raman on archiving dissent
Two professionals have launched 'Democracy by Design,' a crowdsourced digital archive dedicated to preserving visual documentation of student protests in India. The initiative aims to safeguard the collective memory of dissent, specifically following recent clashes between protesters and security forces.
Who owns the memory of dissent? A photograph. The photograph becomes a symbolic entity of resistance against the state’s tone-deafness. The documentation of these photographs becomes an archival , treasuring a nation’s collective memory in a socio-political period. These photographs largely allude to the nation’s sentiment against the state’s policies.
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