By S Bharat on December 16th 2019
This article is the third part of a three part series reflecting on the archiving process undertaken to create the Kolkata Urban Archive. Access the second and first parts. One of the most common questions I ask of people, as an archivist, is “what is this document”, usually while holding up a piece of paper. Typically […]
By S Bharat on December 16th 2019
This article is the second of a three part series reflecting on the archiving process undertaken to create the Kolkata Urban Archive. Access the third and first parts. “That every document comes layered with the received account of earlier events and the cultural semantics of a political moment makes one point clear. What constitutes the […]
By S Bharat on October 1st 2019
This article is the first part of a three part series reflecting on the archiving process undertaken to create the Kolkata Urban Archive. Access the second and third parts. Even where archives strive to fill gaps in our collective memories, retrace the expulsions and silencings that produced the conditions of possibility for the present, the form […]