India, Sept. 25 -- On Tuesday evening, as visitors streamed into the Artists' Centre in Kala Ghoda, something unusual marked the opening of the exhibition Echoes of Silence. Instead of the familiar buzz of chatter, the gallery filled with a quiet rhythm - hands moving swiftly and gracefully in every direction. It was a conversation, but one spoken entirely in sign language. The silence itself became the essence of the exhibition-a meditation on how the absence of language can create isolation, and how sign language can transform that silence into connection.

"For much of my childhood, I had no language at all," recalled curator and organiser Alim Chandani, founder of Freedom to Sign, which brought the exhibition to Mumbai after its debut...