"The Alphabet series began as an impulsive response to my experience of coming home on a yearly visit to Delhi in 2005. Each year I would suffer pangs of homesickness and nostalgia that made my visits to India and the photographs I took during that time extremely crucial to my existence for the rest of year. After having spent many months not speaking any Hinglish, each year I would experience a sudden shock of having to relearn this hybrid language and the nuances that go with it. The classic symptoms of migrant nostalgia were also at play where in my photography I would favor the old over the new, the localized global over completely global - which in my case meant preferring handpainted signs over the digital versions, or the ambassador over a Honda."
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