Natasha Nargolkar
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Natasha Nargolkar
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Natasha Nargolkar
Tambat Ali in Kasba Peth, Pune, Maharashtra, is a 300 year-old community of coppersmiths continuing to practice their traditionalal art of creating copper vessels by hand. Once the caretakers of the Peshwa empire, the tambats migrated from the Konkan regions to settle in Kasba Peth to make cannons…
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Nayana Tadvalkar
India has always had a sophisticated aesthetic philosophy and equally rich tradition of making everyday things beautiful. Creativity and culture permeate every aspect of day-to-day life in India. The collection at Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune stands as testimony to this fact. Objects of…
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Dr Jose Rapheal
‘Dr. Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar or Kakasaheb Kelkar was the founder of the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum.’ If I begin this article with this introduction, I am afraid I will not be praising him enough for his passion and determination in single-handedly collecting more than 21,000 antiquities with the…
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Pranita Harad
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Pranita Harad
Museums: Stories beyond silence
In this 21st century, museums have reached far ahead of the previous concepts of ‘ajayabghars’ (house of curios) or just a place to take your children on holidays. Performing the function of cultural hubs, they serve different age groups, intelligences and…
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