Shrenik Mutha is a page and performing poet who uses words as pleas to be heard, as pathways to reach people, as tears in times of death and despair, as slogans in spaces of resistance. Words for him are a way to re-member the forgotten, to bring it to the fore, to call out the silenced, to take the grime of the personal and whip it into a batter which is inviting, but as sour and dirty in its taste, to become the balm to wounds and heal. In his work-performance and writing, there is a clear identification of the personal as privileged and political. His work is an act of making the self more transparent, vulnerable and intimate to the world. His art is strongly influenced by his activism and is also a space where the body mourns what it has lost.