tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61155625496763808692024-02-20T14:15:25.018-08:00Tasveer GharThe House of Pictures: A digital archive of South Asian popular visual cultureTasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-64189123719444124542018-10-04T22:22:00.001-07:002018-10-04T22:23:38.960-07:00New Visual Essays from 'Manly Matters' Project<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19.5px;">
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We are happy to announce a new visual essay on our website as part of our <a href="http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/181/" target="_blank">ongoing project ‘Manly Matters’</a> about the iconographies of the masculine in South Asian visual culture.<br />
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<b>Sarunas Paunksnis and Runa Chakraborty: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/189/&source=gmail&ust=1538801678141000&usg=AFQjCNGJ_V3vdona26GWBIuLlm9At2yAyA" href="http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/189/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Anurag Kashyap</a></b></div>
"Kashyap’s films act as representatives of a new social order currently prevailing in India and compel us to understand the complex process through which the notion of masculinity is being continually configured."</div>
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You may also see our previous features from the same project that were announced earlier: </div>
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Shabnam Naher and Mossabber Hossain: Male Beautification and the Beauty Salon, <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Changing Perceptions of 'Masculinity' among Males in Dhaka, Bangladesh</span></div>
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Rupali Sehgal: Selling Intoxicating Bondings: Hyper Masculinity and Print Alcohol Ads in India.<br />
A gallery of Indian liquor advertisements showing the tropes of masculinity.<br />
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Sourav Roy: The Constitution of India: A National Gallery of a Few Good Men.<br />
A visual essay on the Constitution of India as a visual document embodying masculine ideals.<br />
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Gaurav Kalra: Politics of Posture and Sartorial Sagacity: The Construction of Ascetic Masculinity in Vivekananda’s Photographs and Posters<br />
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We would wait to receive your feedback on these essays and images, which you can provide using Comments box at the end of the essays/galleries.</div>
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Tasveer Ghar team<br />
(Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Yousuf Saeed)<br />
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You can also write to us at <a href="mailto:tasveerghar@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">tasveerghar@gmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:yousuf@tasveergharindia.net" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">yousuf@tasveergharindia.net</a></div>
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ysaeedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01114476863968750082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-4654384252869734182015-04-02T02:51:00.001-07:002015-04-02T09:26:35.508-07:00Visual Homes, Image Worlds: Essays from Tasveer GharNew edited volume from Tasveer Ghar, the House of Pictures<br />
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Or write to yodapressbooks@gmail.comysaeedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01114476863968750082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-29630645695413438132011-03-27T05:21:00.000-07:002011-03-27T05:24:49.354-07:00Eid Mubarak: Cross-cultural Image Exchange in Muslim South Asia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/117/"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_ThwRhAb4wCn6KZzgPSHWjN4yleweItTpbtzopiHwHaOb4fCH3JkFeuyRpCL6wrOAmgaXXkaCeyC4E2gkOjCI1eOghWNUoThUSLojlaRXszmXEv50YCgQexH2Lt0CURWPSXKhR9iDys/s400/eid-banner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588734115223010802" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">The festival of Eid may still be a few months away, but as they say, “May everyday of your life be the day of Eid, and every night, the night of Divali.” Happy Eid! </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tasveer Ghar is excited to present a new visual essay about the circulation of images through the Eid greeting cards in India and Pakistan since the early 20th century until now. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Eid Mubarak: Cross-cultural Image Exchange in Muslim South Asia”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">By Yousuf Saeed</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/117/">http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/117/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">While Eid greeting cards have existed in most Muslim societies, this essay looks at the production and use of picture postcards of Eid in South Asia since their early days, to see how they emerged as popular vehicles of iconography across cultures via the postal networks, especially defying many stereotypes about Muslims and Islam as they are prevalent today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The author, Yousuf Saeed, has been archiving and writing about South Asia’s Islamic popular culture since many years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We hope that you have been enjoying the various visual essays appearing on Tasveer Ghar website so far. Very soon we are bringing out an edited and illustrated volume of selected essays from Tasveer Ghar with contributions from many well known authors from all over the world.<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Looking forward to your visits to our website.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Tasveer Ghar team</p><span class="z19Dle" id="col-z130idpwoku4grnmv23zfpvi0xqcd12as04"><span class="zo"><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/117/" class="ot-anchor"></a></span></span>ysaeedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01114476863968750082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-88829015014522792162010-01-19T10:26:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:33:05.037-08:00An Illustrated Lecture by Yousuf Saeed: Popular Islam and Urban Spaces<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi"</span></span><h2 style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5fHqsFR1ObGcFNSBwyaaqZCBW2AwmmwV_vnOwykRQjb3aueq8g2KYlWVjjIRJc7HoRimTy-JMsDjWZ_AwdL1EU-y3LZNS9qz7GyECNXsiDogNulMfxxEZV4iRTttCQ0xL_c_QO5PBqc/s1600-h/2810.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5fHqsFR1ObGcFNSBwyaaqZCBW2AwmmwV_vnOwykRQjb3aueq8g2KYlWVjjIRJc7HoRimTy-JMsDjWZ_AwdL1EU-y3LZNS9qz7GyECNXsiDogNulMfxxEZV4iRTttCQ0xL_c_QO5PBqc/s200/2810.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428520524100310354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">An Illustrated Lecture by Yousuf Saeed </span></h2> <span class="eventdate">Jan 22, 2010 </span> <span class="eventtime">06:30 pm 08:00 pm</span><div class="eventdata"> </div><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/ned/knt/anf/enindex.htm" title="Illustrated Talk by Yousuf Saeed: "Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi"" target="_top">Siddharta Hall, </a><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/ned/knt/anf/enindex.htm" title="Illustrated Talk by Yousuf Saeed: "Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi"" target="_top">Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhawan,<br />3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001</a> <p><strong>Yousuf Saeed, member of the <a href="http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/heidelberg-research-architecture/hra-projects/satellites-of-networks.html" target="_blank" class="internal-link-new-window"><strong>HRA project "Satellites of Networks"</strong> </a>will give an illustrated talk on "Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi".</strong> </p> The talk focuses on how the popular visuality around the shrine has changed over time in response to the changes brought about by urbanization, movement of pilgrims, new technology, and competition from the more orthodox <em>tableeghi </em>and <em>Wahhabi</em> ideologues in the vicinity? This work-in-progress is part of <strong></strong><strong><a href="http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/heidelberg-research-architecture/hra-projects/satellites-of-networks.html" target="_blank" class="internal-link-new-window">HRA project "Satellites of Networks"</a> </strong>a research and documentation project tracing the transcultural flows between Europe and Asia in Muslim popular iconography at the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".ysaeedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01114476863968750082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-68563208560052002012009-12-02T07:35:00.000-08:002009-12-02T07:39:30.657-08:00Fabricating New Minarets of Identity<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">While the Swiss ban the minarets, South Asians fabricate new ones</span><br />http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/86/<br /><br />Tasveer Ghar presents an interesting image from Delhi that appeared in an Urdu newspaper, coincidentally the same day the Swiss voted to ban mosque minarets in their country. This image is an advertisement for prefabricated minarets available now in India.</span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ01lKl_n12vgLhJnQN09x7f9OdfsiiXMSDzXVTiyTad-J2Qa3D1jqy9IB63sZhWPITovnPawZCF2NZ13IeE7iWp1XSfzX3HMMlQ6xfTOkgNEcfEcCYynt0rskE8oV0lnIZLPuBoVBCZo/s1600-h/minarets.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ01lKl_n12vgLhJnQN09x7f9OdfsiiXMSDzXVTiyTad-J2Qa3D1jqy9IB63sZhWPITovnPawZCF2NZ13IeE7iWp1XSfzX3HMMlQ6xfTOkgNEcfEcCYynt0rskE8oV0lnIZLPuBoVBCZo/s320/minarets.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410663490002030466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">See a detailed report about this on Tasveer Ghar:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/86/</span><br /><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span></span>ysaeedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01114476863968750082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-74076727117121494512009-11-17T01:39:00.000-08:002009-11-17T01:45:02.655-08:00Public presentation by Shirley Abraham & Amit Madhesiya: "Tiled gods appear on Mumbai's streets"<h2><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></h2> <div class="eventdata"> <span class="eventdate">http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/events/event-view.html<br /><br />Nov 17, 2009 </span> <span class="eventtime">11:45 am 01:00 pm</span> </div> <div><a href="http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/news-events/events/event-view.html?tx_cal_controller%5Btype%5D=4">Lectures & Panel Discussions</a></div> <div>Category: B4</div> <div>Organizer: <a href="http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/b-public-spheres/b4.html" title="B4 Transcultural Visuality Learning Group">B4 Transcultural Visuality Learning Group</a></div> <div class="loc">Karl Jaspers Centre, Voßstraße 2, Building 4400, Conference Room 212</div> <strong style="font-weight: normal;">In context of the seminar "Stadtwelten - Weltstädte" by Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius and Dr. Nic Leonhardt, Shirley Abraham and Amit Madhesiya, short-time scholarship holders of the Cluster "Asia and Europe" are going to give a presentation on "Tiled gods appear on Mumbai's streets: Negotiating through the strictly delineated spaces of the megacity,exploring their transformation into curious zones of urban propriety"</strong>Tasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-43826041788886387552009-05-23T03:39:00.000-07:002009-05-23T03:45:41.139-07:00Election Campaign 2009: How to woo Indian Muslims to vote for you<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/49/index.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9y1S4xfp86v8JFhehoO2hwcIk9IS73TZieqjpybA-UJnxavIKJnb1DDgLnx2pyc7EHI6p0eu5AmTzNvM6yS7lM4my87hqAZCNKcAncQuPPzTMTfJtnQMQKzYKmefXI6nTfi9x8poI_oo/s400/cong-muslimx.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338968332613465506" border="0" /></a><br />Last week, the Lok Sabha elections of 2009 to select India's central<br />government finally come to an end, and results were out. Some analysts have pointed out that the Muslims of north India were one of the important deciding factors for the success or defeat of the different parties. If one observed the Urdu newspapers in north India, one could easily see how different parties and candidates tried to attract the attention Muslim voters by engaging them on a number of issues from development and employment to terrorism and communalism.<br /><br />While Congress and its allies have emerged once again to form the government, one can see how they and the other parties didn't leave any stone unturned to present a favourable image of themselves, while painting their opponents as the worst enemies of the Muslims.<br /><br />Interestingly, many of these advertisements have bylines not of the main parties they represent. Rather, these have been issued by hitherto unknown organizations and NGOs of local Muslims, and in some cases, religious clergy or even the keepers of local Sufi shrines, who have a great following among the Muslims. While this is not the first time that Muslim religious leaders have participated in the campaign for political parties, but they have certainly come out more openly<br />this time, often using the iconography of their religious authority.<br /><br />We present a few examples of such campaign advertisements from some newspapers published in Delhi in the last few weeks:<br /><br />http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/49/index.html<br /><br />We would be happy to hear your feedback about the various interesting image galleries emerging on Tasveer Ghar.ysaeedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01114476863968750082noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-76583243340753144332009-02-12T05:11:00.000-08:002009-02-12T05:21:51.060-08:00Of Romantic Couples and Gods on the Streets<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kJHIrcIyRYvAo5htX2Qh-miB_Xqi-fZykWGYCMlOepX1iREsArLM9SgCSjAPhsdHPFt7NvWKfD1rOZILiANX72BNHDD15Y4bXUdjCjqyyGiQCM5KAuHDVF4lztV1WaIQYu2vQA7lqoXo/s1600-h/god_stops_u_from_urinating_on_street.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kJHIrcIyRYvAo5htX2Qh-miB_Xqi-fZykWGYCMlOepX1iREsArLM9SgCSjAPhsdHPFt7NvWKfD1rOZILiANX72BNHDD15Y4bXUdjCjqyyGiQCM5KAuHDVF4lztV1WaIQYu2vQA7lqoXo/s200/god_stops_u_from_urinating_on_street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301899942715637170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Tasveer Ghar presents two new virtual galleries:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Tiled Gods appear on Mumbai's Streets</span>: A visual essay on the roadside tiles that prevent the passers-by from peeing, by Amit Madheshiya and Shirley Abraham:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">http://tasveerghar.net/2008/shirley-amit</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Monuments, Landscapes and Romance in Indian Popular Imagery</span>: A visual essay by Kajri Jain - http://tasveerghar.net/2009/kajri</span>Tasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-53040264511535828852009-01-01T08:04:00.000-08:002009-01-01T08:40:47.137-08:00"Priya Paul Popular Arts Collection" and a "New Grant for Tasveer Ghar"We are delighted to announce the following new exciting projects and features of our growing archive:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1. The Priya Paul Collection of Visual Popular Art@Tasveerghar:</span><br /><br />Priya Paul, a well known Indian entrepreneur and the current Chairperson of Apeejay Park Hotels, has been an ardent collector of Indian art, contemporary as well as popular/archival art. Her collection of old posters, calendars, postcards, commercial advertisements, textile labels and cinema posters, painstakingly accumulated over several decades, is one of the finest archives of such ephemera in India. Tasveer Ghar was commissioned to digitize and archive this important collection in 2008. Each image needed careful handling, cleaning, scanning, digital photography, classification, and creation of detailed metadata. It took more than 3 months to physically handle and scan the images into raw digital data. Part of the work was funded by the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context“ at Heidelberg University. The formatting and digital restoration of all files as well as the metadata creation is still ongoing. It is estimated that when we are all done, we will have the digital versions of over 5000 images in the archive covering a broad range of subjects including Indian nationalism, Hindu mythology, Islamic iconography, commercial advertisements, popular cinema, and portraits. This digital image archive will soon be available on Tasveer Ghar’s website for all to see and benefit from. Specified thematic image-clusters would also be used by specialists/scholars to write visual essays. We also present here a short video interview of Priya Paul about her art collection (recorded in October 2008). <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/809i2HTdJnM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/809i2HTdJnM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2. New Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG)</span><br /><br />Tasveer Ghar has received a generous grant of three years of funding from the German Research Foundation. This grant emerges from Tasveer Ghar’s collaboration with Heidelberg University’s new Cluster of Excellence, “Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” (see http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/Plone). This grant will enable Tasveer Ghar to launch a new initiative on Eurasian Muslim Popular Visual Culture, as well as strengthen our capacity to work across and beyond the South Asian region from Delhi, and develop institutional ties with the Cluster members at the Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg, as well as international partners. Our collaboration with Heidelberg University’s Cluster of Excellence will lead us to track (a) the flows of images and concepts between Europe and Asia, and within Asia; and (b) further ongoing collaboration with European and Asian institutions/scholars/ students/practitioners. The moving and still images collected and tagged in this process will be fed into already-existing image archives of both Tasveer Ghar and the Karl Jaspers Centre.Tasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-12897141362896889912008-04-16T06:59:00.000-07:002008-04-16T07:03:31.433-07:00<a href="http://tasveerghar.net/gallery.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189843133354043986" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg367khWPyU-iR1SigHVkH6QnOfdFFGIhOefcySfXDdPNpR6oLgCHxKYOQ3GphdtquzIcI-G_DCJtVqUS4ck0NcFissnkJpcbnNVY1akXvLELFrtz42bSCTG8UaOvdmZp-0pAW9Bk9HGl0l/s320/stamil.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div>When a Language Becomes a Mother/Goddess:<br />An Image Essay on Tamil </div><br /><div>by Sumathi Ramaswamy<br /></div><div></div><div><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/stamil/">http://tasveerghar.net/stamil/</a></div><div></div><br /><div>Tasveer Ghar announces a new Visual Essay exploring the historical journey of Tamil, a language that comes to be transformed into anobject of love and devotion, producing in the process an unusualvisual presence for a spoken tongue...</div><div></div><br /><div>For more, please visit <a href="http://tasveerghar.net/stamil/">http://tasveerghar.net/stamil/</a></div><div></div><br /><div>Other recent Visual Essay on Tasveer Ghar:</div><br /><div>Remediation: Iconic Images and Everyday Spaces - 'Female Film Stars' in Print Media: </div><div>by Madhuja Mukherji</div><div><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/madhuja/">http://tasveerghar.net/2007/madhuja/</a></div><div> </div>Tasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-44861304222340679842008-02-17T05:12:00.000-08:002008-02-17T05:27:13.897-08:00New Galleries on Tasveer Ghar: South Indian display dolls, Hindi novel covers, and much more<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQrpCMQjLv41T_roAN9JEqU9X1eIcxRt0fsKQEajVjvur90R23_i_g8H4IA0w0RaK1vI-D5Q6_DP8onWYbt-vsNFiu_aobFy5UbuGzGKx-guiWVzKI3QGnIixio9F5V2MD4nY2rOVDe-E/s1600-h/Fig-9-thumb.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167938980053763618" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQrpCMQjLv41T_roAN9JEqU9X1eIcxRt0fsKQEajVjvur90R23_i_g8H4IA0w0RaK1vI-D5Q6_DP8onWYbt-vsNFiu_aobFy5UbuGzGKx-guiWVzKI3QGnIixio9F5V2MD4nY2rOVDe-E/s320/Fig-9-thumb.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tasveer Ghar introduces new galleries featuring some exciting examples of Indian popular art and culture:<br /></span><div></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/annapurna">Miniature Societies and Grihani Aesthetics: Display dolls in South India</a></strong></span></div><br /><div><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/annapurna"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">http://tasveerghar.net/2007/annapurna</span></a><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/atmaram">Commodification of Gender on the Titles of Popular Hindi Novels</a></strong></span></div><br /><div><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/atmaram"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">http://tasveerghar.net/2007/atmaram</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/vishal">Transitioning Sexualized Imagery on Raunchy Bhojpuri Music Albums</a></strong></span></div><br /><div><a href="http://tasveerghar.net/2007/vishal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">http://tasveerghar.net/2007/vishal</span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Many more to come soon...</span></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Tasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-91112322109763362572007-10-08T03:49:00.000-07:002010-03-02T21:05:51.541-08:00Tasveer Ghar: पोपुलर मीडिया में मुसलमानों की धार्मिक छवि<a href="http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/78/index.html">Tasveer Ghar: पोपुलर मीडिया में मुसलमानों की धार्मिक छवि</a><br /><a href="http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/78/index.html">http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/78/index.html</a>Tasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-90402652890642974072007-10-07T01:24:00.000-07:002010-03-02T21:04:15.413-08:00पोपुलर मीडिया में मुसलमानों की धार्मिक छवि<strong><span style="font-size:180%;">तस्वीर घर आपका स्वागत करता है</span></strong><br />तस्वीरों के इस घर में हमारी नयी प्रस्तुती है <a href="http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/78/">भार्तिये मुसलमानों की धार्मिक छवि जो दिखायी देती है हमारे पोपुलर मीडिया में खास तौर पर कैलेंडर आर्ट और हिंदी फिल्मों में</a><br />आप से अनुरोध है कि आप इस नयी प्रस्तुती को देखें और इस के बारे में अपनी राये ज़रूर बतायें । अगर आपके पास कुछ अनोखी तसवीरें हैं जो हमारी वेबसाइट को और बेहतर कर सकती हैं तो हमें ज़रूर भेजें<br />शुक्रिया<br />युसूफ सईदTasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115562549676380869.post-67185492718418661662007-09-14T09:56:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:03:33.529-07:00Tasveer GharTasveer Ghar (The House of Pictures) is a Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture. This weblog is meant for discussions about the content of the website www.tasveerghar.netTasveer Gharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286201563927818030noreply@blogger.com1