Today is the last day of the week long colab with @dStephenB as @MuseumBuddy Stephen has enlightening us with his work in the field of #military #history & representation of #indian #Soldiers in #Britisharmy during the 2 #worldwars apart from that he takes people on #guidedtours Stephen tell us more about your tours to various #war related #heritagesites across #England What are your plans for the future, post lockdown times? I’ll post some of my #guided tours photos here in #India with my #design #students btw today’s #TeachersDay here 😎

This is the 4th day of colab with @dStephenB thru @MuseumBuddy till now we have learnt how #Indian #soldiers were represented in #art in #England though not always accurately. We also saw how #European soldiers were depicted in #India #temples #woven #handembroidered #textiles I’ll share some photos of #memorials of #british #soldiers in #India here are from the #afghanchurch in #mumbai it was the 1st Anglican Church in South #bombay started as a chapel. In 1838soldiers killed in the 1st#afghanwar were laid to rest here, then from the other 2wars

As we proceed with our discussion on the representations of #soldiers in a variety of #media, specific to the #british army, #indiansepoys during the #worldwars @dStephenB unveils a set of #paintings and #posters this is part of our colab, a thrilling initiative by @MuseumBuddy

https://twitter.com/dStephenB/status/1301117869116329984

These are #handwoven #silk #saris made in #Murshidabad in #Bengal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Called ‘Baluchari’ sari as they were woven in the land near the river Bhagirathi which flows by Murshidabad. ‘Balu’ means ‘sand’ & ‘char’ means ‘bank’ in #bangla #language

This is a #handmade #terracotta panel from a 19thcentury #temple in #murshidabad in #Bengal it depicts #soldiers with their #arms we can clearly see from their #costumes #headgear #footwear #swords that they are part of the #local population @dStephenB @arthysteriaa @MuseumBuddy This #terracotta panel from a 19thcentury #temple in #baranagar in #Bengal shows #European #Soldiers How do we know they are? From their #muskets #attire #headgear the presence of these soldiers must have had a great impact in the #lives of their local people #museums #stories

Thank you @MuseumBuddy Hello everyone😎we are both independent consultants for #museums & #heritagespaces in #India & #England we’ll be sharing our work,exchanging #stories & #SharedFacts from #History #art #culture #heritage &our #oralhistory projects. Be with us the whole week

https://twitter.com/MuseumBuddy/status/1300342561718951936

Welcome @dStephenB to #museumbuddy 😊 Stephen is a #museum professional #curator if fabulous #exhibitions #projectmanager #educator Through the last day of August to the first week of September, we’ll be chatting about his work, experiences on #heritage and #curation @MuseumBuddy

“An attempt to reach out to those interested in the arts, but isolated by the lockdown, is now an #oraldocumentationproject encouraging you to draw or write about your favourite memory from a museum...Thank you @janeborges87 written so beautifully our team is beaming “The idea was to reach out to those who might have been forgotten, are #isolated, #depressed and lack access to #museums or #heritage sites. By opening up an undiscovered space, I wanted to give them something to look forward to in the future," says Das.”

This is the 100th post celebrating 5 years of this blog!!!Thru it, Iformally announce the ‘Museum Memories Project’ – a #oralhistorydocumentationproject started on April 15, a VarnikaDesigns initiative, to positively respond to the global #pandemic @OralHistorySoc @museum_detox @britishmuseum @NMnewdelhi @CamUnivMuseums @MuseumDirectors @futureofmuseums @DesignMuseum @PartitionMuseum @HornimanMuseum @philamuseum @MuseumWeek @theplainjain @Tate @ArchaeoNomad @rangan_datta @bombaywallah @ranjithoskote @iamrana @SushmaJansari @LaliMAndrade @theAliceRoberts

The real heroes who deserve to be celebrated are the skilled crafts communities integral to #preservation #conservation of #heritage #sites #monuments and #museums across the world. These are photos from the #NalandaUniversity, a #UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite in #Bihar in 2013 Here, when we had gone on a research trip as the Bihar Museum #design team, we had found #craftsmen making bricks and sculptures to help in the restoration of the 1500 year old site. We thought this was extremely imp as the process was similar

This is one of the paintings from the ‘Water Lillies’ series with oil on canvas by the French Impressionist painter, Claude Monet. This was painted by him between 1914 - 1917, when the First World War was ravaging Between 1914 till his death in 1926, Monet completed 200 paintings (mostly large canvases)!!!He apparently painted quickly during summers when the light was good and filled in the details during winters, not letting his failing vision come in the way of such dynamic creativity

VarnikaDesigns started its first social media colab with Suyash Srivastava, Textile Designer. He was completing his project from Siwan in Bihar, one of India’s most sensational states, and gave us live coverage from there.

Read more on: varnikadesigns.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/ins… His objective when he started the takeover was:”I am looking forward to take the viewers through the lives of #local #people in #Bihar,focusing on their way of living,the types of products they use,things that lead &influence their lives by building a visual experience for them.

Witnessed history being projected! On Saturday, 8th February, India’s prominent artist #nalinimalani created an installation on the facade of the #TajPalaceHotel in #Mumbai It had more than 50 animations and floating images, perfectly wrapped around the hotel People stopped on the extremely busy #Gatewayofindia to hunt for the ‘#Koel’ (large Indian #cuckoos) as the sound of the #bird emitted from the #video Nalini Malani has an entire series called’Can you hear me?’ on @instagram on her profile

Happy Basant Panchami: in India it means ‘Basant’ or Spring is here. India has 6 seasons, each as beautiful as the other ♥️ Let’s celebrate it through our love for Nature as Draupadi and her attendants are in this miniature painting made 500 years This #miniaturepainting is from ‘Razmnana’ commissioned by Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khanan, able commander, #poet #advisor of #Mughal emperor #Akbar a #dyslexic he made it his mission for translation of many manuscripts into highly illustrated books in his ‘taswirkhana’painting atelier

Wishing every single one of us a very Happy 70th #RepublicDay2020 Let us carve the #Preamble of #Indianconstitution on our hearts and minds:
#justice #democracy #secular #sovereign #socialist #india #fraternity #equality #loveall #pride🌈 #access #inclusion #soundsofnature WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

We just don't talk #Access & #Inclusion in #Museums & #HeritageSpaces - we take it very seriously! Today, on #MentalHealthAwarenessDay we announce a Workshop @FortMehrangarh in November 2019.Dates for participation are very close, do register asap.
camtriennial2020.org/accessworkshop… This is the2nd #Access & #Inclusion workshop, 1stwas held in 2016.There is NO GOVERNMENT POLICY in India for making #museums #heritagespaces open up to different needs.We need to change that.Please participate& share @k_satyarthi @nipunmalhotra @DisabledChildIn @DisabilityIN

Dangers of the sea: with impending #Monsoons, fishing communities across #India tie up their boats. All along the #Indian #coastline, #boats of different dimensions and #colours, await the #dark #clouds to wreck havoc on their #home - the #sea The #rainyseason recharges #water & #human bodies, but the #fishingcommunities have no #income.They would have had to save enough to tide them through. They spend this time with their families,repairing boats,fishing nets& specialise in #hunting small #crustacean close to #shore

This living #heritage is a dynamic witness to a large range of #historical events &personalities. It was an amazing learning in tracing #historyofdesign: how the #design #art #architectural thought processes are stimulated by their #socio #cultural #political #economic contexts It’s the Darbar Shri Guru Ram Rai Ji Maharaj situated in the heart of Dehradun city. Read how it connects to the history of the city of #Dehradun
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Hi, I’m Chitku 🙂 we’ve met before. This is my brother Kaachbo. We have been brought into this world by Priyanka Tolia😎 Around 2003, while working in Mumbai, many of her colleagues from varied Himalayan states of India, discussed frequently and naively on the needs of design interventions to create livelihood opportunities so as to push mountain industries that otherwise face isolation.

#Dehradun is the capital of #Uttarakhand, a state formed in 2000 in the Himalayan region of #India. Historically, it was known as ‘dun’ till the #British referred to it as ‘Doon’. From references to God Shiva, Ram, the #Sikh Guru Har Ram Rai, #Chinese traveller Huien Tsang... #Afghan ruler DostMohammad sent here in exile by British& freedom fighter #RashBihariBose came here #Dehradun has seen lots of #history of #Indian subcontinent.Did u know delicate Dehradun #rice was introduced by Dost Mohammad?u still get delicious Afghani #cuisine @virsanghvi

There’s lesser sense of wonder and more logic in the world today... the youngest Jnanpith award winner, author Amitav Ghosh feels! His surprise in finding that most of the people he interacted with in Venice were Bengalis, his way of dealing with the human spirit in his writings, and if he locks himself up while writing are some of the things that he discussed with the Director @shekharkapur The more than 100 year Royal Opera House proved to be the perfect venue for such a creative dialogue with so much laughter. #Shakespeare was smiling up there 😊

Water! We will always need you but we treat you bad :( varnikadesigns.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/wat… Have you noticed how #peacocks are everywhere –in our #textiles and #architecture?In 21st century, our #generation has managed to make it to global historical timeline with the most atrocious eventsincluding the #world heading towards a huge #water scarcity #art #nature #GoGreen

When the #city is like a #museum, with layers of #history #stories in each breath-just go out& explore.We did exactly that😊celebrated #internationalmuseumday with young #designers walking around lanes of historic #bombay Thanks Bharat, Manu, Saurav Vaibhav for coming on the tour The #icom theme for 2019 was: ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs: The future of tradition’ - we followed it by discovering the beautiful Maneckji Sett Parsi Fire Temple in our walk in #Fort. It’s the second oldest Fire temple of the Parsis in the culturally diverse city, made in 1733