exhibitions
India
Where Three Dreams Cross
An exciting new exhibition in London at the Whitechapel Gallery from January 21 through April 11 2010.Read more
Fallen Giants
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008
Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages
An exceptionally gripping and well-written history of mountaineering in the subcontinent from the mid-19th century. Major expeditions are covered in detail, and the book is well illustrated with vintage photographs.Read more
Tasveer Ghar
The "House of Pictures" is an image repository together with the scholarship to help understand and curate them. Supported by three major universities and important collectors of these art forms, it features regular new essays by experts in India, Europe and the US.Read more
Facing Asia: histories and legacies of Asian studio photography
Presented by the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University at the National Gallery of Australia in August 2010.Read more
Phantasmagoric Aesthetics
by Zahid Chaudhary
A detailed, insightful examination of Beato's famous photographs from Lucknow in March 1858 showing skeletons and the remnants of battles just fought in the city.Read more
Asians in East Africa
Early Postcards of Tibet 3
The final article in a series of three on Tibetan postcards, their subjects and makers originally published in 2009 in Picture Postcard Monthly.Read more
Early Postcards of Tibet 2
by Liz Mckendrick
In 1910 China invaded again but withdrew four years later and between then and 1950 Tibet managed to take control of its own affairs producing its own stamps and currency as well as a flag. However in 1950 the Chinese invaded again and in 1959 the Dalai Lama, along with 100,000 Tibetans, was finally driven into exile across the border to northeast India to live in Dharamsala.Read more
Early Postcards of Tibet
Postcards from Tibet are quite a rare find these days so it is not very often that I manage to add a new one to my small collection. Considering Tibet’s history the lack of vintage cards it isn’t really surprising–surrounded on three sides by inhospitable mountain ranges with several of the world’s highest peaks amongst them and at an amazing 4000 metres above sea level Tibet is in one of the most isolated regions of the world.Read more
Late Victorian Holocausts
Publisher: Verso, 2002
Binding: Softcover, 464 pages
An eye-opening book about how policies, technologies and weather patterns combined to bring about some of the enormous famines that became endemic to India in the second half of the 19th century.Read more
monsoon
s. The name given to the periodical winds of the Indian seas, and of the seasons which they affect and characterize.