Photography, videography allowed only for official purposes. Use of phones, cameras, tripods, selfie sticks banned. Mediapersons restricted to lawn area in low security zone.
In Taana Baana, photographer Rajeev Srivastava captures the layered rhythms of Delhi through vintage lenses. His images range from solitary streets to cosmic blooms.
At an IHC photo exhibit, curator Neville Tuli opened up his trove of rare photos—many of which document seismic churns in India’s history, each of them a coming-of-age moment.
In West Bengal, photography flourished as a dynamic art form painting a rich picture of urban life. But in Bangladesh, the 1971 Liberation War was the heart of its photographic story.
Inaugurating the Biennale’s first exhibition, Tamil film director Pa Ranjith said that there is a growing gap between people and art, and spaces like the CPB are crucial for bridging it.
With his series on Cuba, Rohit Chawla has ventured into painting. 'Almost everybody’s a photographer now. I had to reinvent the game to stay relevant,' he said.
Maharajas to mugshots, one of India’s oldest photo studios is reinventing itself & digitising over 20,000 artefacts from 1947-1967. ‘Fail to preserve history and narratives can be misappropriated.’
In 1865, John Edward Sache began a partnership with photographer WF Westfield to set up a photographic studio named Sache & Westfield at Waterloo Street in Calcutta, which became a member of the Bengal Photographic Society.
From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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