Ethnography is not a word known to most. In the popular mind, it conjures up one of two images. Either it appears to present the strange and exotic as if it were ordinary, or it presents the every day and the banal as fascinating and worthy of deep analysis. We’re going back to a fun… Continue reading Archives: Delhi Ethnographic Film Festival
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A Class Apart
A drawing room sofa upholstered with bold graphics runs the risk of showing poor taste. But sofa cushions, by convention, are a license for graphic fun. My sofa set sports a smart black and white set (pictured) of four, with printed and crudely embroidered naive drawings. They picture: a bicycle; a hand pulled rickshaw; an… Continue reading A Class Apart