in january indu harikumar a mumbaibased artist put out a post on instagram asking women to share stories of their breasts the response was overwhelming and so far she has come up with 35 illustrations based on the requests in a chat with chennai times indu who is a childrens writer illustrator and art teacher tells us about her crowdsourced project is about people and their stories in the area of sexuality identitty and how each illustration is a different kind of experience for herartist as a mediumever since she joined instagram indus been interested in putting out questions or conducting polls on sex sexuality and relationships people worry about these things and they need someone to listen to their worries and concerns in families there is generally a code on how you should behave how you must conduct yourself its there even with friends says indu adding that it was only this that led her to come up with her first crowdsourced project 100 indian tinder talesthis was at a time when dating apps were becoming popular i was curious to know how people handle relationships online i elicited experiences and responses of indians using the app from anywhere in the world it became hugely popular and threw up several insights into peoples minds though the responses were overwhelming the stories were emotionally drainingit was a huge learning experience i was learning through peoples stories and i realised that it even helped me overcome my issues says indu and in eight months time she had more than 100 tales as illustrations which were later exhibited at kunsthalle bremen museum in germanysoon many people started asking her to put up things that they wanted to share and also know from others basically things that worry them i was only a medium she stresses breast storiessome months ago she was talking to someone on the platform about breasts she said that men only see her breasts i narrated my story and by the time we finished our conversation an interesting project had taken shape and thats how identitty was born since then indu has been illustrating breasts of womenindu says that its not easy for women to discuss their bodies but social media or internet gives them the power to reveal their concerns worries and even incidents without fear of being exposed its a shared space and people come forward to discuss things which they may not be comfortable talking about even with their best friends indu says adding when a person talks about something it enables a whole lot of others when someone talks about the shame they felt they enable others to share the same i never engage with the people beyond the storiesher method is simple i ask people to send their colour pictures through email and later i illustrate them i do not identify the subjects nor give any clues to where they are from this allows women to bare their bodies and discuss their most intimate