the great turning

Rahul Banerjee & Swanan Sarkar × Ruchi Bakshi Sharma & Sanjeev Sharma

The Great Turning brings together earth, body and consciousness in an endless cycle of taking in and giving back.

The table becomes the body, the food becomes the world we absorb, and the wheel becomes the turning of seasons, generations, economies, desires and history. Around it, we give and receive, cook and consume, labour and gather—each of us both participant and witness.

As in a dream, what we take in must be digested, assimilated or rejected; nourishment and poison emerge from the same churn.

We eat the world, and the world becomes us. Everything turns.

Rituparna & Avinandan Banerjee

Co-Founders, Nutcase Etc. Cocktail Parlour, South Kolkata

A chef and hospitality consultant, Rituparna Banerjee approaches the bar with a cook’s instinct for flavour. Her work moves between Southeast Asian influences, Bengali ingredients and the familiar pleasures of bar food, bringing a culinary point of view to the cocktail parlour. Before Nutcase, she co-founded Curry Fwd Collaborations with her husband. Avinandan Banerjee helped turn a conversation over drinks in East London into Nutcase, an intimate cocktail parlour in Kolkata. Alongside Rituparna, he co-founded Curry Fwd Collaborations, a hospitality consultancy shaped by their experiences of drinking and dining around the world. Nutcase grew from a desire to bring that spirit of discovery home, creating a place where cocktails lead and conversation follows.

Ruchi Bakshi Sharma & Sanjeev Sharma

Ruchi Bakshi Sharma (Artist) & Sanjeev Sharma (Poet, Writer, Film maker)

Ruchi Bakshi Sharma and Sanjeev Sharma are a Mumbai-based creative duo, artists, and life partners who co-found and run AIRDROME, a collaborative studio located in Aksa Village, Madh Island, Mumbai. Artist Ruchi Bakshi Sharma works across moving image, lenticular prints, mirrors and sculptural objects. Drawing on dream psychology and South Asian mythology, her practice explores how perception shifts and how images change depending on where we stand. Sanjeev’s practice brings a personal, cross-disciplinary approach to storytelling moving between the written word, the stage and the screen with ease.