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Saturday, January 3, 2026
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Topic: photography

How John Edward Sache photographed 19th-century India

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.

The business of dreams — photographs from the studio of Suresh Punjabi

The story of Suresh Punjabi — his upbringing, influences and the portraits he produced at Suhag Studio in Nagda, Madhya Pradesh, in the 1970s and 80s.

History can be written & rewritten. Photos can’t be taken again – Raghu Rai

The way Modi is everywhere now, back then Indira Gandhi was on every cover page, said photographer Raghu Rai at a recent event in Delhi.

Low-light photography brings Ajanta murals to life for the first time in Delhi

Art historian Benoy Behl unveiled 30 years of his work at Delhi’s IIC, enthralling visitors with his low-light images and digital restorations of Buddhist cave paintings, Chola-era murals.

Del Tufo & Co – India’s earliest photo studio with branches from Madras to Colombo

Photographs produced by the studio were shown at the 2015 exhibition, Imaging the Isle Across, and shown at the National Museum, New Delhi.

10 Dalit communities in black & white photographs—Delhi exhibition has no room for politics

Asha Thadani's photographs of Dalit communities are part of an exhibition titled ‘Broken’ at Delhi's India Habitat Centre. Those photographed are united in their 'shared trauma'.

Lala Deen Dayal—celebrated photographer who captured the who’s who of 19th-century India

Lala Deen Dayal brought to photography what Raja Ravi Varma brought to paintings.

ATW Penn–British photographer who captured 19th-century South India in his portraits

ATW Penn lived and worked far from the urban centres of colonial rule and rarely engaged with surveyors or institutions.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.