At about 9:30 in the morning today, Prateek drove us to Sirhind from Chandigarh in his car. We were there in about two hours from then. Sirhind is a very small city that comes under the Fatehgarh Sahib district in Punjab. While entering the city we crossed an over bridge when we saw a fleet […]
Early morning today, Istling and I, both packed our bags and left to the New Delhi Interstate Bus Terminal. In the past I have travelled to Chandigarh (Punjab) a few times to visit my cousin sister. So I was quite familiar with the bus route. And Sirhind was just a couple of hours ahead of […]
In 2011, Hanif Kureshi (Sr. Creative at W+K, New Delhi) launched a website www.handpaintedtype.com to promote the hand painted signs and street typography of India. When we met Hanif, he shared his views about the hand painted signs and the painters who had worked with him. He told us how difficult it was for him to do this project […]
Mrs. Seema Srivastava has been a visiting faculty in several art and design colleges in New Delhi. With over 19 years of teaching experience, she shared with us her views on truck art as an observer rather than a professor. But it was quite evident that the years of teaching experience and studying about the […]
Himanshu Dogra, the founder of Play Clan was quite impressive and had a very in-depth and well-researched knowledge about popular art culture. Having 8 stores across India and a group of designers to help run the store, Himanshu aims at celebrating life and culture in India. A meeting with him and a few photographs later, […]
Today we went to IILM to meet Mrs. Usha Iyer (Dean, IILM school of Design). As she was busy with some college work, she invited us over to her place the next day for an interview. She also mentioned that her mother might be able to help us with some history about the truck art. […]
Last evening Istling arrived in New Delhi to accompany me with the research for the next couple of weeks. Today morning, we decided to visit the Azadpur Sabzi Mandi (major vegetable market) at the northern end of New Delhi. It took us almost an hour-long Metro train ride to get there. Vegetables and fruits […]
The second library I visited in New Delhi was the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum Reference Library. Since NHHM puts special emphasis on crafts related topics, I was expecting a to find something much more meaningful here. The librarian — Mr. Rajender Singh seemed quite interested in my research topic and attempted his best to provide […]
After finishing my research in the central part of India, I landed in Delhi yesterday. My core plan was to visit various libraries and national archives to dig out some earlier research material about the truck art of India. Sticking to my initial plan, today I visited the National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA), New […]
From Mumbai, I travelled to Chhattisgarh to continue my research on the truck art of India.