Dead Pathans
Two examples suffice.Read more
Burke + Norfolk
An exceptional then-and-now investigation, suffused in the tragedy of two Afghan wars. Simon Norfolk, a modern war photographer, echoes Burke's work in a profound and captivating way as he probes the artifacts of today's conflict with Burke's 1878-80 Afghan war album by his side. There is nothing else quite like it in photography.Read more
Eid Mubarak: Cross-cultural Image Exchange in Muslim South Asia
"In the 1970s and 1980s, a few days before the festivals of Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Zuha, I regularly visited the Urdu bazaar opposite Jama Masjid in old Delhi with my parents to buy visually attractive Eid cards, then wrote short messages of greetings and salutations for friends and relatives residing in other towns, and dropped these into the nearby post box.Read more
Journal of a Tour Through Spiti to the Frontier of Chinese Thibet
Philip Henry Egerton
Once again Hugh Ashley Rayner has done a great service to Raj photography by reprinting this important 1864 photographic volume by a British administrator. Philip Henry Egerton was traveling to an even more obscure area in the Himalayas at the same time as Samuel Bourne. While his photographs are not as impressive, the narrative and stories are richer.Read more
Curfewed Night
After seeing Basharat Peer read from this book during a recent academic event at Stanford University, getting it and reading the whole thing was inevitable. And very rewarding: a powerful, well-written, insightful narrative of how we got to today's Kashmir crisis from someone who grew up in a village as it all unfolded.Read more
tana, thanna
s. A Police station. Hind. thāna, thānā, [Skt. sthāna, 'a place of standing, a post'].