Initiatives
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Connecting Southasian Archives
As part of this initiative, we are working on creating and maintaining an active network of localised archives across the region. The aim is to garner greater recognition of the individual archives, as well as the importance of archiving in general. The ever-growing online database listing private archives and collections of Southasia is a rich resource, especially for historians, scholars, researchers and students.
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Forbidden love: The Love Legends of southasia
Researching and documenting the love legends of Punjab, is an attempt to simultaneously address the geopolitical as well as social contradictions that afflict Southasia in a mass scale today. There has been a need felt for a cultural project in Southasia which brings issues of cross-national and cross-cultural to a level where the mass public can empathise.
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Music on the move: The Gandharva of Nepal
Research on the specific musical styles and techniques of five Gandharva communities across the country, focusing on the modes of diffusion; the barriers to the traditional modes of transmission; and the study of new methods that can be utilized to allow the Gandharva community to pass down their musical knowledge as a means of livelihood.
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Hri-searching Southasia, the Hri newsletter: In our second issue this year, we bring to you news from various private archives in Southasia and present a sneak preview of some of the treasures to be exhibited in the first Hri travelling exhibition.
Blog
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Do modern-day youth match up to death defying love as embodied by the eternal
23 May 2013 |
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An old faithful visitor to Murree has steeped himself in preserving the memories
15 May 2013 |
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Nadeem Aslam resurrects the archetypical doomed lover Heer by creating a fictional
7 May 2013 |
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Chintan Girish Modi reports on a treasure of stories woven into godris.
23 April 2013 |
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Chintan Girish Modi finds out more about Delhi-based fashion designer Mayank
3 April 2013 |
