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How to Turn Travel Photos into Social Media Reels with AI
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (857+ words) The essence of travel can be seen through still frames of experiences or moving frames of experiences (reels). Imagine an image of you at a beach being developed into a dynamic video clip with waves crashing, clouds rolling, and sunshine…...
Brown sepoys and colonial ghosts: The architecture of attention
3+ week, 3+ day ago (193+ words) The negativity towards India isn't random, nor is it merely adversarial reporting or a reaction to current policies. It is structurally overdetermined; produced where colonial cognitive frameworks, portable academic templates, commercial economics, and an ideological secularism India never signed up…...
Raghu Rai's lens preserved India's living, breathing history
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (78+ words) The Sunday Guardian Copyright 2025 - All Right Reserved. Raghu Rai's lens preserved India's living, breathing history Sagari Chhabra is an awardwinning writer & film-maker. She is the founder-director of the Hamaara Itihaas Archives of Freedom Fighters. The Sunday Guardian is India's fastest…...
Exhibition Shines a Light on the Historic Landscape Paintings of 19th Century
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (173+ words) An accompanying publication furthers the idea of the exhibition by presenting oil paintings, watercolours and drawings; prints, including aquatints, engravings and lithographs; and ceramics. This shows that picturesque imagery had proliferated into popular culture with decorative arts as well. These…...
Who is Julia Buruleva? Russian Photographer Behind Jaipur Pink Elephant Photoshoot Faces Massive Backlash Over Animal Welfare & Artistic Freedom Debate
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (379+ words) Julia Buruleva travelled to Jaipur as part of an art expedition aimed at capturing the vibrant culture and colours of Rajasthan. She later shared details about the project on social media, explaining how the idea developed after spending weeks observing…...
Framing the Margins: Photographer's lens becomes an act of witness
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (225+ words) Asha Thadani's lens explores dignity, labour and survival across India's overlooked communities. The defining moment Asha Thadani describes from her time in a village in Telangana was when she saw a woman lying face-down in the dust. Her head pressed…...
Through the Lens of Empathy: How Photography is Rewriting Stories from the Sidewalk
9+ mon, 7+ hour ago (114+ words) VMPL New Delhi [India], September 17: Photography has always been more than just an art form " it is a language of light, shadow, and emotion. From the" Copyright 2025 - All Right Reserved. Follow Ahaana's work at @Sidewalk Stories (The article has been…...
'My great-great-grandfather took first-ever selfie in India': Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma
9+ mon, 7+ hour ago (352+ words) New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Tipra Motha Party founder and erstwhile royal of Tripura, Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma, claimed that his great-great-grandfather, then Maharaja Bir Chandra Manikya, took the first-ever selfie in India in 1880. In an interview with ANI,…...
No Longer A Memory: How a Constable Turned His Mother into His Muse
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (563+ words) Gowramma, 69, says her husband wasn't a bad man. He was just lazy. That he never stirred himself to do a day's work was realised by her father only after No Longer A Memory: How a Constable Turned His Mother into…...