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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicColonial photography

Topic: Colonial photography

How British photography represented Indian women—nautch girl, aayah, bhadramahila

In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family photographs and their visual omnipresence in our daily lives.

British photographers showed sites of 1857 violence, without people. They erased Indians

A DAG exhibit, on display until 12 October in Delhi, reminds people how photographing is often ‘an act of staging reality’.

On Camera

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.