Tasveer Ghar: Image Galleries

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Tasveer Ghar presents the following image essays contributed by many young as well as seasoned collectors and scholars. Some essays are the work of Tasveer Ghar fellows of 2007 who focused on the theme of Gender, Nation and the Everyday Spaces, while some new ones are by the 2008 fellows who worked on the theme of Kaleidoscopic Sites and Sights: The Printed Visual Culture/s of Religious Pluralism. Click on the links to peview the essays:




Kamal K. Mishra: Tasveer ka Bhed - Cloak and Dagger Illustrations in Hindi Detective Fiction http://tasveerghar.net/2007/kamal/ (Published on 24 March 2009)

Kajri Jain: Monuments, Landscapes and Romance in Indian Popular Imagery http://tasveerghar.net/2009/kajri/ (Published on 12 February 2009)

Amit Madheshiya and Shirley Abraham: Tiled Gods appear on Mumbai's Streets http://tasveerghar.net/2008/shirley-amit/ (Published on 12 February 2009)

Stephen Inglis: Pongal Greetings by K. Mahadevan http://tasveerghar.net/inglis/ (Published on 31 July 2008)

Sujithkumar Parayil: Icons of the Reformist Period and ‘Re-formed’ Icons of the Present http://tasveerghar.net/07/sujith/ (Published on 30 June 2008)

Sumathi Ramaswamy: When a Language Becomes a Mother/Goddess http://tasveerghar.net/stamil/ (Published on 16 April 2008)

Madhuja Mukherji: Remediation: Iconic Images and Everyday Spaces http://tasveerghar.net/2007/madhuja/ (Published on 31 March 2008)

Vishal Rawlley: Miss Use: A Survey of Raunchy Bhojpuri Music Album Cover http://tasveerghar.net/2007/vishal/ (Published on 29 February 2008)

Javed Masood: Catering to Indian and British Tastes - Gender in Early Indian Print Advertisements http://tasveerghar.net/2007/javed/ (Published on 29 February 2008)

Annapurna Garimella: Miniature Societies & Grihani Aesthetics http://tasveerghar.net/2007/annapurna/ (Published on 29 February 2008)

Atmaram K. Bhakal: Objects of Desire: Commodification of Gender in the Titles of Popular Hindi Novels http://tasveerghar.net/07/atmaram/ (Published on 29 February 2008)

Yousuf Saeed: This is What They Look Like: Stereotypes of Muslim Piety in Calendar Art and Hindi Cinema http://tasveerghar.net/mstereo/ (Published on 6 October 2007)

Patricia Uberoi: Good Morning – Welcome – Svagatam: Kitschy Indian 'Welcome' Posters http://tasveerghar.net/welcome/ (Published on 13 May 2007)

Christiane Brosius: Celebrating More Than the New Year: The Hindu Nationalist Greeting Cards http://tasveerghar.net/hgreet/ (Published in April 2007)
For more visual essays by Tasveer Ghar fellows and other scholars of visual popular culture, see Essays from the South Asian Visual Culture Series at SavifaDok, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg