aper Jewels Postcards from the Raj

 

Discussion and launch of the book by Omar Khan (Mapin Publishing & The Alkazi Collection of Photography, 2018)

 

 

 

Introduction: Rahaab Allana

 

 

 

Illustrated presentation by Omar Khan, Chief Technology Officer, Common Sense Media, San Francisco, avid historian, award-winning web designer and aspiring filmmaker who runs the website Harappa.com

 

 

 

Followed by a conversation with Dr. Malavika Karlekar

 

 

 

Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj and the first book on the subject. It uncovers such gems as the early postcards of the great Indian painter M. V. Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press in Mumbai, the exceptional work of an early Austrian lithographer in Kolkata, a British photographer in Peshawar, and Indian studios in Jaipur, Kashmir, Delhi, Lahore, Madras, Karachi and elsewhere.

 

 

 

It is organized by place into a dozen chapters. The essays cover the key themes important to postcard publishing—religion, dancers, teas and soaps, famines, fakirs, humour, warfare and the role of postcards in the Independence movement. It tells the stories of the first postcard publishers of the subcontinent between 1892 and 1947, most of whose images have not been seen since they were published a century ago

Many Yarns of the Cotton Handloom Story

 

An exhibition by Dastkar Andhra and Pankaj Sekhsaria

 

 

 

Inauguration by Uzramma, Founder Dastkar Andhra & Malkha; and Laila Tyabji, Founder, Dastkar, Delhi on Friday, 24 August 2018 at 18:30

 

 

 

The exhibition brings together a range of objects – pictures of the handloom process printed on hand woven fabric, tools used by the weaver, yarn used in dyeing, and woven fabrics. Designed as an interactive experience, where viewers are encouraged to touch and feel the fabrics and yarn; smell the colours and dyes and listen to the many sounds of weaving. The exhibition hopes to focus attention and awareness about the weaving process and the skill it takes for the weaver to weave a simple everyday handloom product

 

 

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a seminar on Saturday, 25 August from 09:30 to 17:00 in the Seminar Rooms II and III, Kamaladevi Complex on

 

 

 

Handloom Futures

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Dastkar Andhra)