Fascinating conversation on the role of photography in the constructing Architectural history during colonial times with Sudeshna Guha, Giles Tilotson and Rahab Allana. Check out the accompanying exhibition at @DAGworld
“There’s a lot of pressure and hope put on individual leaders, especially Black women, but at the first sign of trouble… well she becomes the problem. It’s becoming a cliché.” https://t.co/6cwmo5Z6JY Via @diversity_lewes
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How Nazis and the ‘Little Führer of Bombay’ spread their web in war-time India.
Their methods of pressurising the press, intimidating civil society members, well-funded propaganda and deceit are all too familiar, writes @dekkani in a fascinating essay that opens at the Bandra Gymkhana.
https://t.co/x5ZvsjeCyL via @scroll_in
#bengalinewyear | Did you know that the Mughal Empire introduced the modern Bengali calendar?
https://t.co/R5O6yPSEy8
@ShoaibDaniyal on how the new calendar was devised. Read ⤵️ #REPLUG
Gujarat Model Explained in One Frame: Installing plastic trees by uprooting natural vegetation near the banks of Narmada on way to Statue of Unity @souindia
"Every generation sources histories in a different manner. So, history is infinite. We cannot finish it"
- @GuhaSudeshna, author, 'A History of India Through 75 Objects' talks to me abt everything frm the headless statue of Kanishka to the Godrej lock!
https://t.co/ckjBYYUheQ
Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with @GuhaSudeshna, author, 'A History of India Through 75 Objects' and to a review of 'The Haunting of Delhi City' by @TheDilliMirror Jatin Bhasin and Suparna Chawla Bhasin
A painting shows how #Mughal emperors used Christian images to represent their own glorious dynasty. An excerpt from ‘A History of India Through 75 Objects’, by @GuhaSudeshna
https://t.co/9CZATHNXTn via @scroll_in#History#India
#BookReview | A history of India through 75 objects
Through a series of essays, @GuhaSudeshna's book examines the history of prehistoric, modern-day artefacts & ethics of heritage-making that nationalises past bereft of nation states,writes Rajiv Shirali
https://t.co/yQbOzeETZp