Rolling India
Globe has no borders. She is a perpetual alien, a foreign body, a meteorite from outer space, a temporary export far from home. Synthesised from stars, she is always on the move.
We rolled Globe in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk and Karol Bagh districts. In the afternoon we were joined by Jayani Bonnerjee, who is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at O.P. Jindal Global University. Jayani was able to speak both Hindi and English with the crowds who were interested to know more.
Woman: ‘What is it exactly?
Jayani: ‘What do you think it represents?
Woman: ‘It’s difficult to imagine. What are you carrying inside it? It’s a mystery, a mystery metal.’
Janetka: ‘It’s copper, it’s a natural forming metal found in the earths crust, we used copper to represent the world’
Woman: ‘Oh, I see it’s a globe.’
Jayani: ‘But there are no countries on this globe’.
Woman: ‘We can make the countries.’
Jayani: ‘Do we want to make countries?’
Woman: ‘No, no that’s the beauty of it.
A man selling jewelry in a red-lined tray raised his arm to the skies and declared Globe a meteorite that might fly back to from where it had come. Another woman came over and looked; ‘I see, so you are rolling India'.
