On May 27, 2020, the Mumbai Mirror published an article about Tasveer Ghar, the digital archive of South Asian popular visual culture founded by Christiane Brosius, the HCTS professor of Visual and Media Anthropology, Sumathi Ramaswamy, HCTS associate member and professor of History at Duke University, and independent filmmaker Yousuf Saeed. The piece, titled Magic in the Mundane, highlights how Tasveer Ghar serves as a trans-national network for the collection and digitalization of the rich visual cultures of South Asia, as well as an educational platform to raise awareness on the importance of popular images as social and historical agents.
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