NEW DELHI, (IANS) – There were times she would leave her camera aside and hold the hand of the woman in labor. The project was not important at that moment in time.

Once, a woman she had photographed during labor almost begged her – “Give my son a name”. She was initially reluctant. However, ultimately, she named him ‘Kabir’, the name she had thought would belong to her son. The mother gave her Rs 11. Multimedia artist Komal Mistri still keeps that special money in a part of her purse.

‘Come With Your Own Light’ chronicles unheard voices reverberating behind the closed doors of the unhinged mechanized labor room where in the realm of the labor room consisting of spotlighted beds and surgery tools, lies the tale of embroidered bodies, bewildered weather to feel pleasure in pain or pain in pleasure, the artist has multiple takes on the process.

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