Identity Stories is an exploration of the shifting identities being built everyday in modern India. Rapid economic growth has led people to move out of their existing circumstances into new urban jungles. A once-hyperlocal society has suddenly changed into one in which movement outside core networks is seen as a means of progress. Discrimination in many urban Indian cities has given rise to violence in many cases. This installation questions why we identify someone as the "other" when we ourselves are a melange of so many cultures. 
The episodic autobiographical stories of our two narrators take us on a vicarious journey, experiencing their memories with sensorial stimuli of scent. It is an attempt at using local scents, a form of intangible cultural heritage, to build a relevant narrative. In-depth and in-situ interviews of the protagonists were conducted to get a deep understanding of their lives and the associations they have built over time while helping us recreate those atmospheres in the form of audiovisual and smell sensations.

The installation uses blinking soft lights to invite users near the installation. As soon as the users are near the Loud-speaker shaped structures, the installation starts producing sound and slowly emanates small quantities of scent along with audio narration describing individual stories in the voice of the protagonist, allowing the audience to create their own perceptions based on the scents being emanated and the voice being heard.