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No excess weight, please

<p>A new book by a city-based visual artist features a collection of digital collages that use satire to explore the culture of body shaming in Indian society and media</p>

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A week ago, actor Fardeen Khan slammed trolls on social media after a photograph of the alarmingly podgy-looking actor went viral. There were jokes and memes posted across social platforms. At a time when beauty pageant winners and soap opera actresses seem cloned, 22-year-old Kritika Trehan, a graduate of Bengaluru’s Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, recently released Excess, a book that looks at the issue of body shaming through a collage of digital images and sarcasm. The visuals in the book are based on real stories of shaming experienced by urban women from ages 13-55, using comic-style formats and kitschy images to address the serious issue.

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