Ektara video magazine, January 2026

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Ektara Newsletter
January 2026
(See the list of previous issues)

Warm greetings of the New Year 2026. Happy to announce that Ektara online magazine on shared history, heritage and arts of India and South Asia, which started on 1st January 2016 is now 10 years old. We wish to promote peace and communal harmony in India and the world through art, culture and historical information.

In our January 2026 issue, we present the following features and videos:

1. Dear departed 2025
Artists, scholars and other important Indians/South Asians who passed away in 2025.

2. From dust to digital, preserving India's bazaar art:
Scroll.in presents a detailed report on Tasveer Ghar and the popular art archive of Priya Paul. (By Kamayani Sharma)

3. Scholar Arfa Sayeda Zahra talks about classical music
Lahore's senior scholar Arfa Syeda Zahra passed away on 10th Nov. 2025. This is a short excerpt from her interview in the documentary 'Khayal Darpan'. Watch full film here.

4. Divine Color: Prints from Modern Bengal, exhibition at MFA Boston
Tasveer Ghar is collaborating with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to create wall collages for this exhibition from its archives. Visit the exhibit if you are in Boston, USA.

5. Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai, Vinod Kumar Shukla
A documentary film by Achal Mishra featuring (the late) Hindi author Vinod Kumar Shukla in conversation with Manav Kaul.

6. Newsletter 2026: Twenty years of Tasveer Ghar archive.

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