[Reader-list] Picturing Mountains As Hills

[Tasveer Ghar]

Dear friends

Greetings from Tasveer Ghar, the house of images.

In our ongoing series of visual essays based on the Priya Paul Archive
of Popular Indian Art, Tasveer Ghar brings you an exciting new visual
essay written and curated by Shashwati Talukdar:

Picturing Mountains As Hills: Hill Station Postcards and the Tales They Tell
http://tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/102/

“A home away from home for the British in India, hill stations are a
window into the discourse of British colonialism and the practices
they generated.  A 19th-century invention, the hill station has been
memorialized by Rudyard Kipling as the quintessential playground of
the Raj… Hill station postcards aren't just encoders of colonial
discourse, they also tell us about the sorts of practices that hill
stations generated…”

The author, Shashwati Talukdar, is an independent filmmaker who began
working in the film and television industry as an assistant editor for
a TV show by Michael Moore. Since 1999, she has worked on projects for
HBO, BBC, Lifetime, Sundance and Cablevision, and has directed over a
dozen films and videos, which have been screened at venues including
the Margaret Mead Festival, Berlin, the Whitney Biennial in New York,
Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki and the Institute of Contemporary Art
in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
and Temple University, Philadelphia. She lives between Taiwan, the
United States and India.

http://tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/102/

In case you haven’t seen, the previous visual essays by other scholars
using the images from Priya Paul image archive can be visited at the
following links of the Tasveer Ghar website (many more to come soon):

Arvind Rajagopal, “The Commodity Image in the (Post) Colony”
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/100/

Richard H. Davis, “Temple in a Frame: God Posters For and Of Worship”
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/97/

Sandria B. Freitag, “Consumption and identity: Imagining ‘Everyday
Life’ Through Popular Visual Culture”
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/96/

Abigail McGowan, “Modernity at Home: Leisure, Autonomy and the New
Woman in India”
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/95/

Philip Lutgendorf, “Chai Why? The Triumph of Tea in India”
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/89/

Hope you are enjoy reading our new essays. Your feedback about the
specific essays or general comments about the initiative are always
welcome.

Thanks

Sumathi Ramaswamy
Christiane Brosius
Manishita Dass
Yousuf Saeed
Suboor Bakht


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