Priya’s Shakti
Artist
Lina Srivastava
An innovative art, cultural and multimedia project which includes a graphic novel, smartphone apps, and video, designed to draw attention to and activate responses to gender-based violence in India, arising from the 2012 brutal gang rape on a bus in New Delhi. Drawing on Hindu myth and classic Bollywood films, the project reorients traditional Hindu tales with a modern feminist sensibility and features the stories of real-life survivors of sexual assault. The project plans to launch an exhibit at the Mumbai Comic Con and several US cities and develop a teachers’ guide and workshops at City Lore in the East Village.
