Navjot Altaf – The Thirteenth Place by Nancy Adajania. Published in 2016 by The Guild, 28, 3rd Pasta Lane, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Colaba, Bombay 400005; email: the guildart@yahoo.com, the guildart@gmail.com; website: www.guildindia.com. Pp: 314. Price: Not mentioned.
For those who are not familiar with the work of the contemporary artist Navjot Altaf and her involvement as an activist at Bastar, Madhya Pradesh (MP), the last segment may prove to be a key to understanding some of it.
It provides the most succinct image for the intriguing title — The Thirteenth Place — that also forms the visual image on the......