Dilli ki Sardi (Winter of Delhi)
Dilli ki Sardi
(Winter of Delhi)
by Chitra Sangtani
Dilli ki Sardi (Winter of Delhi)
Video • 18:00 • India • Hindi
Dilli ki Sardi examines the varying uses and significations of fire as a technology for heating through the winter in Delhi. At once a site of livelihood and a sign of precarity, it follows the social and spatial practices surrounding fire and its role in shaping the intimate contours of life, labour and liveability in the city. Set against the backdrop of severe air pollution, the film also considers how shifting attitudes towards smoke are sharpening class inequalities, with dependence on fire increasingly coming into tension with middle-class environmental sensibilities.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Chitra Sangtani (she/her) is an anthropologist and visual artist. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and is studying the everyday politics of fire and flammability in Delhi.
