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Trisha Gupta
@chhotahazri
Writer, critic, curator, conversationalist. Professor of Practice, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication https://t.co/qwNKEgUNQT
Jun 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
Thread: For my weekly cinema column in Mirror/TOI Plus, I've been writing a series of pieces on #trainsinIndiancinema. First came this column, which opens with the Lumiere Brothers but zooms quickly into Avtar Kaul's strange and vivid award-winner #27Down: trishagupta.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-ou… For the second piece in the series, I looked back at what the railways meant to British colonial India - and Anglo Indians - through the Ava-Gardner-starrer #BhowaniJunction: trishagupta.blogspot.com/2021/04/home-o…
Jun 4, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Amazing what some people consider a defense! Yes, the National Museum isn't in sparkling condition. But it is this govt that has left it to die. The stellar director-general Venu Vasudevan, whose initiatives had changed the museum experience b/w 2013 & 2015, was removed mid-term. Under Venu, the NM had started free volunteer-led walking tours, and held some brilliant exhibitions in collaboration with the finest Indian art historians and curators, occ also working with private collectors. Shows on the arts of the Deccan, on Parsi history and heritage, etc.