Fellows for 2008

Tasveer Ghar, the house of images, is delighted to announce the selection of candidates for its short fellowship for the year 2008. 

The theme for this year is “Kaleidoscopic Sites and Sights: The Printed Visual Culture/s of Religious Pluralism”, and we received an overwhelming number of exciting ideas and proposals for the same. We congratulate the following four candidates/teams that have been selected as Tasveer Ghar Fellows for 2008, for their respective topics:

1. Subah Dayal and Suzanne Schulz
Topic: Outside the Imambara: The Lives of Pilgrimage Souvenirs

2. Shirly Abraham and Amit Madhesiya
Topic: Religious Iconography in the Public Sphere - Painted and Tile Gods Adorning the Streets.

3. Daljit Ami
Topic: Exploring Ravidas, Understanding a Meeting Point of Faiths and Resistance

4. Joe Christopher and Alice Sampson
Topic: Challenging Dominance: The Visual Repertoire of the Bonallu Festival and Subaltern shrines in Hyderabad

See the details of the fellows for 2007