Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Not Drown)

Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown) was conceived in response to a prompt given by Raqs Media Collective to think about modes of care, and the afterlife of caregivers. In an empty hospital in Kolkata, a man faces protocols of blood, a subtly discriminatory office, and a vacant operating theater. His mind is on a loop of the last months of his wife’s life, when a quiet argument developed. When is the end of pharma-medical care, whose life is it anyway? They were an estranged couple, thrown back into intimacy by an unknown illness. Even in a dreamworld of his making, the paranoia of infection is twinned with a hesitant intimacy