A cropped Image from the exhibition Disobedient Subject: Bombay 1930–31 Images from the K.L.Nursey Album. The newly inaugurated Mumbai Gallery at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya presents the exhibition Disobedient Subject: Bombay 1930–31, curated by Avrati Bhatnagar of Duke University, along with her colleague Sumathi Ramaswami. Featuring a selection of photographs from an antique photo album known to be Photographs of Old Congress Party: K.L. Nursey, carefully preserved in...

https://sharedecologies.org/writing-natures-magazine-issue-2-insubordinate-vitalities-natures-across-documentary Originally published as part of Writing Natures_Issue 2, Insubordinate Vitalities: Nature across Documentary, Issue Conceptualised and edited by Arushi Vats, Published by Shared Ecologies: A Shyama Foundation Initiative, (IN), 2026. In this conceptual essay – i propose a mutable presence occupying the in-between spaces of established ecological, ontological, and political...

The text is published as part of Perspectives, by IMART formerly MAP Academy, A unit of Art & Photography Foundation, and a partner of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), (IN), 2025. A brief about the text: At the Egmore Government Museum in Chennai, it is impossible not to be captivated by the sheer vastness and quiet grandeur of architectural heritage, particularly within the zoological and anthropological wings. The aged artefacts, the crumbling stairways, the soaring ceilings – all...