How do we negotiate, assert and experience the secular through our bodies in the times that we live in?

Since the end of 2020, Delhi-based choreographer Mandeep Raikhy has been travelling across India with two banners: one that reads “SECULAR INDIA,” and the other, its Hindi equivalent, “Dharamnirpeksh Bharat.”

He has invited artists, friends and strangers to have embodied dialogues with him and the banners. Through this ongoing artistic experiment, The Secular Project , Mandeep questions our relationship with the secular and compels us to experience it through our bodies