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Stories, field notes and reflections from the Eka team on archives, museums, exhibitions and collections, along with articles we have written or found worth sharing.

Revisiting the Nizams of Hyderabad
Permanent Gallery for Paintings & Photography @ City Palace Museum Jaipur - 27th Sept. 2015
The exhibition, titled 'A Passionate Eye' featured on NDTV 24x7
Book launch featured on Business Standard
Eka on the pages of the Forbes India magazine
Eka featured on The Sunday Guardian
The 2000 year old scrolls get a new lease of life on the web.
Learning from Indo-Islamic Urban Fabric: Talk by Prof. Attillo Petruccioli
Images that epitomise contradiction tell the story of a Pakistan, far, far away from labelled, exotic representations.
Cataloguing Specks of History: Eka on Gulf News
Museums in Japan have come up with simple, yet ingenious ways to monitor their power expenditure.
The new Ruhr Museum in northwest Germany was actually a coal washing plant.
An exhibition showcasing over 40 Indian artists that represent a period of 400 years of Indian painting.
The Colosseum on fire.
A new lexicon of South Asian jibber jabber.
Diaries of Alexander Cunningham, the first archaeological surveyor of British India, have been discovered.
Recent demolition work in Hampi has opened portals to the ancient kingdom of Vijaynagara.
Savage Beauty on the top 10 list of shows at the Met.
The School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU is organising a talk by Prof. Frederick Asher.
The School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU is organising a talk by Prof. John Court.
There has been a murder in the museum.
Kolkata is all set for the biggest modern art museum in Asia.
What happens when cars get traced on cloth?
Pramod remembers Husain through a short piece published in Harper's Bazaar.
Eka on the pages of Livemint. Sneak peak for those who do not want to pick up a copy.
Archaeologists are digging for garbage, yes, you read correctly, pits and pits of historic garbage.
Delhi Art Gallery presents Chittoprasad: A Retrospective, 1915-1978, an exhibition on the life and works of one of India's most prolific political artists.
The first set of Indian labourers who migrated to foreign shores were ship hands, travelling in the trade vessels introduced to them by the British. Since then, Indians have travelled far and wide, driven by the promise of opportunities and employment. What are the larger questions thrown up by migration?
All Arab men are terrorists and their women, deeply tortured and behind veils. What are the implications behind such stereotypes?
E-books are mushrooming day by day, throwing up new possibilities such as e-learning and e-publishing. What about libraries then? Will they soon cease to exist?
The prestigious UNESCO Asia Pacific Merit award for cultural heritage conservation was presented to Chowmahalla Palace on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
An anonymous art dealer passionate about Afghan heritage has teamed up with the British Museum in an effort to buy and repatriate a spectacular antiquity believed to have been looted from the Afghan national museum in Kabul during the 1990s.
Eka Cultural Resources & Research is now at No. 5-I, 2nd Floor, Jungi House Lane, Shahpur Jat, New Delhi -110049
Celebrating the legacy of Kanota.
Our team review a rare Dastangoi performance, a part of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture's 'Apni Basti' festival celebrating the historic Nizamuddin Basti or settlement in Delhi, including links to the Dastangoi blog!
Specialists from the Courtauld Institute in London have been given unique access to help document and conserve murals and artworks across monasteries and Dzongs (fortresses) in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
The innovative restoration of the Citadel at Aleppo is by far the most exciting preservation projects in the Middle East, one that places as much importance on people as it does on the buildings they live in.
A series of articles by the NY Times on the creation of museums and knowledge cities across the Arab world, forging a new identity for the region.
Photos of the Deen Dayal themed merchandise available at the IGNCA (exhibition venue).
The enduring beauty of Raja Deen Dayal’s photography goes beyond a merely historical interest in colonial or patrician India, just as Holbein’s art captivates a viewer who has no particular interest in Henry VIII and his court, says Aveek Sen of The Telegraph.
FotoWala-Documentary Photography in India
The Eka staff at Dungarpur were lucky enough to witness the Dungarpur stop of a vintage car rally flagged off from Udaipur to Jodhpur in October 2010. Read about it and see pics here!
Raja Deen Dayal's images are a fascinating record of India's past says Shailaja Tripathi of The Hindu.
Ranvir Shah, Founder Trustee of the Prakriti Foundation, Chennai, reviews the Deen Dayal exhibition.
Shweta Sharma of the Sunday Guardian reviews the Deen Dayal exhibition.
British Photographic History blog
Photography exhibition on 19th century heritage
For the first time,visitors can catch the 19th-century photographers work, spanning three decades, at an exhibition at IGNCA. Richi Verma reports for the Times of India.
Deen Dayal in The Hindu.
Asian Age coverage on Deen Dayal.
The photographic journey of lensman Raja Deen Dayal documents nineteenth century India and the last leg of Hyderabadi Nizam’s dominance in the country, says Nanda Das.
Georgina Maddox covers the Deen Dayal Show for the Indian Express, especially discussing the technology that went into creating it.
Please join us for the preview on Friday, 19th November, 2010 at the IGNCA (CV Mess), Janpath, New Delhi - 110 001. The exhibition will be on view till Monday, 28th February 2011.
Churchill’s Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee
Pramod Kumar reviews 'Women Changing India' for the latest Tehelka Magazine.
Attingham Trust courses 2011
Eka in Hyderabad
Masks, Puppets & Picture Showmen of India @ IGNCA
Schedule of a six day long Nomadic Fair & Festival at ICCR.
You can finally watch the long-banned Satyajit Ray film on Sikkim, says BODHISATTWA MAITY in tehelka Magazine.
A new computer modeling study shows how the movement of wind as described in the book of Exodus could have parted the waters.
The Great Book Heroes' annotated and compiled by Jules Feiffer is a collector's delight. Written in 1964 the book traces the early days of comic strips and is well illustrated with the first issues of prominent superheroes.
Flower Matango
On Mayawati and the controversial public monuments in Uttar Pradesh.
Divya Bhaskar, Gujarat 4th September 2010
Coverage by Sandesh on the seminar 'Designing for Museums' at NID. Click to enlarge.
Waswo X. Waswo reports from Rajasthan’s ‘City of Lakes,’ finding an evolution of art practices within the double-edged environs of tradition and tourism.
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