Author: Milan Khanolkar

Notes from a conversation with Milan The domain of artifactual literacy is of growing interest. It brings together material culture and literacy. The ‘stuff’ of culture is understood as a valid and powerful form of meaning-making. Milan Khanolkar, a Goan artist opens up the notion of a text as something beyond the printed and even spoken word. It gives us an insight into how story-making can be multimodal and how texts can be woven in diverse ways. Bookworm has published her children’s book, Bindi Su. Milan has also worked on documenting stories from the rich oral tradition of certain Konkani speaking coastal communities. Even from childhood, I was fascinated by dolls – not the dolls that you could buy from the market but the ones that I could make myself. I wanted to make my own creati...