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Topic: photography

Why old black-and-white wedding photos lack smiling couples

Sasanka Perera -
In ‘The Fear of the Visual?’, Sasanka Perera decodes why couples usually didn’t smile in old wedding photos, not just in India but all over the world.

Remembering Homai Vyarawalla, self-taught firebrand photographer who made her own rules

Fiza Jha -
India’s first woman press photographer Vyarawalla’s life and practice coincided with the evolution of photojournalism and the birth of a nation.

A phone cluttered with pictures good or bad? Depends on how you use your camera

Leonid Bershidsky -
From selfies causing anxiety to picture taking being a private art form, new studies explore if our smartphones are aiding or disabling us.

Photography’s earliest trailblazers were women, but today it’s dominated by men

Celia Rose Jackson -
In terms of commissioning, exhibition and publication of work, there is a conspicuous lack of equality in the photography industry.

HS Bhatavdekar, the Indian who created a motion picture 14 years before Dadasaheb Phalke

Sharanya Munsi -
On his 151st birth anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the Bombay photographer who in 1899 made The Wrestlers, considered to be India's first motion picture.

Vanishing ways: A photographer sets out to freeze northeast’s dying traditions

Sankalita Dey -
Shyamal Datta’s photographs depict the different daily rituals of different tribes, with fire emerging as a recurring theme.

Poverty porn sells, but it isn’t helping the poor

Nayanika Chatterjee -
Photos of filthy slums and poor children are aimed at shaking our conscience but take agency away from those photographed.

Triple Talaq: Residents of Nizamuddin basti react to Supreme Court verdict

Nayanika Chatterjee -
Residents of Nizammudin Basti speak about their opinions about the Supreme Court verdict on Triple Talaq.
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Opinion

Prajwal Revanna case shows why and how sexual crimes by men in politics can go unchecked for years

Shubhangi Misra -
It would be a disservice to the women of Hassan to look at Prajwal Revanna’s alleged abuse of power as a ‘sex scandal’. Allegations against him show what ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ actually means.

Have Hindus passed the test by letting Droupadi Murmu enter Ram temple? Not yet

Manusmriti in a London church? 18th-century Britain’s Indomania loved everything Hindu

Economy

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Yuthika Bhargava -
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

Defence

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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