Kurokuma is named for a waterfall, located near the town of Ajigasawa in northern Japan and translates as ‘Black Bear’ – the waterfall resembles the animal if it were standing on its hind legs.

Tenma: I come from the much stereotyped and stigmatised North Chennai. I began reading Periyar when I was 20 but it was only when I was older that I began expressing myself. I had started the Madras ...