Q. How did the idea for the project emerge?
A. I started the project in August 2015. I took a course, called Project Past in my seventh semester of college at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology. It required students to pick a point of interest in history and work with it. I knew I wanted to make it contemporarily relevant and I had been thinking about moral policing and censorship for quite a while. Through a lot of research, conversations with peers and faculty, and brainstorming, I rested at picking Khajuraho temples as the historical context. I visited the complex on several occasions, and have always been familiar with its history. Even though it's famously known for its erotic sculptures, less than 15 per cent of the temple art is of this kind — the rest is celebrating life as a whole.

Beating and slapping of couples by a political party on Valentine’s Day

Q. Why the need to work on a project on censorship on the grounds of obscenity?
A. One particular event that set it off, was the incident from last year, when forty couples were driven out of private hotel rooms by the Mumbai police and booked for 'public indecency'.