"Chhaap tilak sab chheeni" is a collaborative project initiated by Mohit Shelare and Kaushal Sapre. Inspired by Amir Khusro’s intimate description of the stripping away of his symbolic identity just by meeting eyes with his spiritual mentor, Shelare and Sapre explore questions around contact, intimacy, control, and the making and unmaking of identity through contemporary biometric technologies. Supported By Max Muller Bhavan, Goethe instituted Delhi & Kolkata, Five Million Incident 2019, Conceived in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective.