‘Syed Bhai aap ko kuch yaad aa raha hai?’ I usually ask as we zoom past the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial hospital at Kalamboli in the middle of the night on…
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This photo-essay is an attempt to look at archival traces from a heterotopic gaze.[i] Such a gaze, as Michel Foucault writes, “exerts a sort of counteraction” on any position we…
"Woke up at 3 in the morning dreaming of a dead friend, one who was neither too close nor too distant … He looked cheerful. It is difficult to recall…
What is the relationship of memory to acts of writing, reading, viewing art works, and making sense of visual languages? What kind of multiple perspectives does memory offer in any…
आपण दुकानाच्या शोधात बाहेर पडलेले असतो. चालत राहातो, चालत राहातो. पण, दुकान सापडत नाही. दुकानाचं नाव आठवत राहातं, दुकानाचा मालक आठवत राहातो. तिथं काम करणा-या मुलाकडे बघून आपण वैतागून, मनातल्या…
How does textual memory operate and what’s the performative role of an online archive? [An ethnographic experiment to understand how users negotiate the Facebook timeline and assign values to posts…
In January this year, some members of the Sambhaji Brigade uprooted a statue of the playwright and poet Ram Ganesh Gadkari from the Sambhaji Udyan (public park) in Pune and…