UP Postal Portfolio Circle

Institutions & Collectives Film & Photography

A group created by the Photographic Society of India, where members exchanged their photographs and portfolios via post, to be exhibited across the country. Members included photographer Manobina Roy.

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1970 UNESCO Convention

International treaty on combating the international trafficking of assets of national cultural significance, formulated and adopted during the 16th Paris…

Madras Literary Society

Founded in 1817 by Sir John Henry Newbolt, then Chief Justice of Madras, the Madras Literary Society comprised primarily Europeans…

India International Photographic Council

An international photography organisation established in 1983 in New Delhi, with over ten thousand members across the world, including Austria,…

Calcutta Art Studio

Established in 1878 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) by Ananda Bagchi and four students of the Calcutta School of Art, it…

Pathshala South Asian Media Institute

School for photography in Dhaka founded in 1998 by Bangladeshi photojournalist, curator and activist Shahidul Alam, and originally named Pathshala…

Poona Chitrashala

Established in 1878 in Poona (now Pune) by the Marathi writer Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, it was a commercial printing press noted…

Sahitya Akademi

Established in 1952 and inaugurated in 1954, it is India’s National Academy of Letters, created for the promotion and preservation…

The Otolith Group

The Otolith Group is an artist-led collective founded in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, which integrates moving image…