Parties

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Parties Issue

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Issue #3

Parties

For this issue, we look at India through a party lens, at how different subcultures relate to parties – political, recreational or both at once.

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Our third issue of Motherland expounds on how the notion of "party" plays out in India. The Indian wedding is loud, glitzy and carnivalesque and is arguably still the biggest party in town. As weddings reach epic proportions, we look at the set designers being enlisted to inject wedding spaces with sophisticated technology and design know-how. In another story, we listen in on the state of the Indian wedding band, from those who are struggling to keep their profession afloat to others who are thriving in a dying market. We explore the party cultures of two cities, Calcutta and Delhi, we trace the evolution of the music festival, our Urdu-language piece looks at how party plays out for youth in Kashmir, and we see how a more usual expression of revelry is attained through body art. Other contributors have cast their attention towards atypical political parties and unusual ways in which politics have influenced people – from the Chennai-based political party with its ideology of love, to how Kerala’s Communist culture has seen a generation of Malayalis with Soviet-era names. We also look at political party symbols from a design perspective and uncover how these seemingly naïf illustrations have become powerful political tools. A party, however it’s understood, is nothing without its people. And as people engage with parties, be they traditional, contemporary or political, this issue is set to share with you the different faces in the crowd.

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