DIPESH PANDYA
Residency Feed
VOLUME 1.
The first of two collections of Instagram posts and links by multiple alter egos used by Dipesh Pandya, Whitstable Biennale artist in residence in North Kent from January – April 2019.
The posts explore the multidimensional characteristics of different lines of enquiry pursued by Pandya throughout the residency period.
This process is used as a way to acknowledge and collate layers of reference, in the form of texts, images and sounds, as responses to information the artist is gathering.
Read Volume 2 here

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28/2/19
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28/2/19
27/2/19
26/2/19
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25/2/19
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22/2/19
21/2/19
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21/2/19
20/2/19
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19/2/19
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19/2/19
18/2/19
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17/2/19
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16/2/19
14/2/19
14/2/19
13/2/19
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12/2/19
12/2/19
12/2/19
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11/2/19
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1/2/19
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10/02/19
Letter from Rabindranath Tagore to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India
Your Excellency,
The enormity of the measures taken by the Government in the Punjab for quelling some local disturbances has, with a rude shock, revealed to our minds the helplessness of our position as British subjects in India. The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilised governments, barring some conspicuous exceptions, recent and remote. Considering that such treatment has been meted out to a population, disarmed and resourceless, by a power which has the most terribly efficient organisation for destruction of human lives, we must strongly assert that it can claim no political expediency, far less moral justification. The accounts of the insults and sufferings by our brothers in Punjab have trickled through the gagged silence, reaching every corner of India, and the universal agony of indignation roused in the hearts of our people has been ignored by our rulers—possibly congratulating themselves for what they imagine as salutary lessons. This callousness has been praised by most of the Anglo-Indian papers, which have in some cases gone to the brutal length of making fun of our sufferings, without receiving the least check from the same authority—relentlessly careful in smothering every cry of pain and expression of judgement from the organs representing the sufferers. Knowing that our appeals have been in vain and that the passion of vengeance is blinding the nobler vision of statesmanship in our Government, which could so easily afford to be magnanimous as befitting its physical strength and moral tradition, the very least that I can do for my country is to take all consequences upon myself in giving voice to the protest of the millions of my countrymen, surprised into a dumb anguish of terror. The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in the incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part wish to stand, shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen, who, for their so-called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings.
These are the reasons which have painfully compelled me to ask Your Excellency, with due reference and regret, to relieve me of my title of Knighthood, which I had the honour to accept from His Majesty the King at the hands of your predecessor, for whose nobleness of heart I still entertain great admiration.
Yours faithfully,
Rabindranath TagoreSource: Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson, eds.,
Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Letter published in Modern Review (Calcutta monthly), July 1919.
Tower of Power
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7/2/19
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5/2/19
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31/1/19
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26/1/19
Indian Republic Day
15/1/19
Pongal / Ardh Kumbh Mela begins
14/1/19
Makar Sankranti
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11/1/19
Initial visit to Gravesend
28/2/19
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28/2/19
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28/2/19
27/2/19
25/2/19
25/2/19
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23/2/19
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21/2/19
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19/2/19
18/2/19
18/2/19
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17/2/19
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15/2/19
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13/2/19
13/2/19
12/2/19
12/2/19
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12/2/19
12/2/19
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12/2/19
11/2/19
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11/2/19
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10/2/19
Music and Lyrics by The Ska Vengers
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#futurecivilisation
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7/2/19
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5/2/19
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31/1/19
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28/1/19
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17/1/19
14/1/19
Makar Sankranti
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13/1/19
Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti / Lohri
DIPESH PANDYA
Residency Feed
VOLUME 1.
The first of two collections of Instagram posts and links by multiple alter egos used by Dipesh Pandya, Whitstable Biennale artist in residence in North Kent from January – April 2019.
The posts explore the multidimensional characteristics of different lines of enquiry pursued by Pandya throughout the residency period.
This process is used as a way to acknowledge and collate layers of reference, in the form of texts, images and sounds, as responses to information the artist is gathering.
Read Volume 2 here

28/2/19
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28/2/19
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28/2/19
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28/2/19
26/2/19
27/2/19
27/2/19
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28/2/19
25/2/19
25/2/19
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23/2/19
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25/2/19
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22/2/19
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21/2/19
21/2/19
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21/2/19
20/2/19
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19/2/19
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19/2/19
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19/2/19
18/2/19
18/2/19
18/2/19
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17/2/19
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17/2/19
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16/2/19
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15/2/19
14/2/19
14/2/19
13/2/19
13/2/19
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13/2/19
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12/2/19
12/2/19
12/2/19
12/2/19
View this post on Instagram#boys2men #checkmate #wrestlemania #pehelwan Thanks to Amba Sahota for the class photo, circa 1996 ?
A post shared by Dipesh Pandya (@dixpeches) on
12/2/19
12/2/19
12/2/19
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12/2/19
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11/2/19
11/2/19
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11/2/19
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10/02/19
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10/2/19
Tower of Power
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7/2/19
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7/2/19
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5/2/19
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5/2/19
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1/2/19
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31/1/19
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31/1/19
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28/1/19
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26/1/19
Indian Republic Day
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17/1/19
15/1/19
Pongal / Ardh Kumbh Mela begins
14/1/19
Makar Sankranti
14/1/19
Makar Sankranti
View this post on Instagram? ?? #tigerstyle #sher #tuff #futurecivilisation
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11/1/19
Initial visit to Gravesend
Music and Lyrics by The Ska Vengers
All rights reserved
#futurecivilisation
View this post on Instagram#lohri #lohri2019 #sungod #futurecivilisation
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13/1/19
Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti / Lohri