I Am With You In this work, I construct a series of paper thonga—the familiar paper carry bags used widely in middle-class Bengali households. I intentionally create them from graph paper, invoking both personal memory and metaphor. During my childhood, my family and I made these thonga as a means of earning; they were humble objects woven into our daily survival. The graph paper, with its precise grids, becomes a symbolic tool—suggesting how life, especially for the ordinary citizen, is constantly measured, monitored, and negotiated in the smallest of ways. Across these folded surfaces, I draw figures of victims caught in the turbulence of political violence. Their stories—often silenced or forgotten—unfold on the fragile skin of the bags. Interwoven with these images are fragments of newspaper reports, referencing incidents of oppression, targeted killings, and genocide. By transforming an everyday object into a vessel of memory and resistance, the work stands in quiet solidarity with those who suffer in the shadows of socio-political power. “I Am With You” becomes both a personal remembrance and a collective testimony—carrying the weight of lives shaped, measured, and scarred by the politics around them.