This is my presentation used during the Tattoos And Taboos Webinar organized by Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore.

11. July 2016, 17 years old Aabesh
Dasgupta died mysteriously at a
friend’s birthday party in a rich and
elite locality in Kolkata. A media
circus and moral outrage soon ensued
in which the media targeted Aabesh’s
single mother and grandmother for
their so called ‘debauched’ lifestyle
which was held responsible for
children’s ‘moral degradation’ with
fatal consequences. “The grandmother
has a tattoo” ran the headlines as a
proof of the mother-grandmother
duo’s ‘debauched’ lifestyle complete
with ‘sex’ and ‘desires’.