The ‘outsiders’ in death too
The HinduIndu Antony first heard about the concept of a Themmadi Kuzhi in 2017, when her father’s sister died by suicide. “There was a lot of talk about how cases like this would often go into a Themmadi Kuzhi,” says the Bengaluru-based artist, who released her limited-edition photobook, Directory of the Outsiders, last month. “A lot of the cases were suicides, people who married outside the church or spoke against it,” says Antony, pointing out that as recently as 2018, the former nun Lucy Kalappura was threatened with the Themmadi Kuzhi when she spoke against the rape-accused priest, Bishop Franco Mulakkal. “I chose the book form to reach as many people as possible,” says Antony, who also displayed these findings at an exhibition earlier this year. Lack of record This lack of record around this practice shows up in the book’s aesthetic since “I wanted people to sit in with the idea that we don’t know a lot of things,” says Antony.
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