Bageecha (बगीचा) means "personal garden" in Hindi and Urdu - an intimate space of cultivation, care, and belonging.

This project explores the social, cultural, and poetic significance of home gardens in the city. What happens when residents create gardens on their balconies, courtyards, or sidewalks? These green spaces become sanctuaries and stages where memory, identity, and ecological interdependence take root.

Home gardens are quiet spaces of rebellion: reclaiming space, making room for more-than-human life. A flowering plant offers shelter to bees; a personal garden becomes a place of shared abundance. By listening to gardens and the people who bring them alive, Kaushik’s project Bageecha asks: what does "home" really mean? Not just walls and roofs, but fertile ground for coexistence, care, and continuity.

The project gathers stories, conversations, and artistic expressions that reveal how urban gardens function as spaces of resistance, memory, and coexistence with nature.

Sarah Kaushik is a scenographer whose work moves between performance and an animist worldview. Using sound, poetry, and installation, she draws out stories embedded in landscapes and bodies. Her projects reweave connections between humans and the more-than-human world.