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A Birthday
My grandmother died not too long back, she would have been 88 today. The studio pic is of her as a wee thing in about 1930-she was the eldest child so this must have been a special trip. She looks … Continue reading
Posted in 1930s, Girls, India, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Personal, Photography, Tamil Nadu, Vintage
Tagged 1930s, girls, grandmother, pavadai, sepia, Tamil, vintage photograph
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Recreating Vintage/Historical Art
Like him or hate him, Raja Ravi Varma remains influential more than a 100 years after his death. Recreating his work seems to be a bit of a thing ranging from the recent Rang Rasiya to Makaramanju to Pushpamala’s photo … Continue reading
Posted in 16th Century, 1900s, 1930s, Art, art recreation, Asia, Bengal, Documentary, ghaghra, historical art, historical costume, indian art, Indian Women, Malayalam Cinema, miniature paintings, Paintings, Sari, Vintage, vintage costume
Tagged 16th century, 1930s, Amit Dutta, Ananthabhadram, art, fashion, Hemen Majumdar, Hemendranath Mazumdar, Kavya Madhavan, Nainsukh, Raja Ravi Varma, style, vintage
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Abhisarika Nayika
She’s taken off her belt (with it’s tingling bells) also her jingling anklets her silk sari is soaked through-her body too, to the bone. Thank God! for the lighting flashes: They show her the path the one her messenger described. … Continue reading
Posted in 16th Century, 17th century, Art, churidar kameez, Costume, fashion, historical art, historical costume, historical dress, India, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian History, Indian Women, Islamic Dress, miniature paintings, Mughal, Poetry, Sanskrit, Sanskrit Drama, Sari, Women
Tagged abhisarika nayika, anarkali, Bhavana Purushottama, blue, blue dress, nayika, Srinivasa Dikshitar, white, white dress
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The Maharashtra Post
Zee Talkies got a bunch of actors to recreate iconic roles in Marathi cinema for its 2013 calendar. The ones in this post are: Pic 1-Urmila Kanitkar as Shanta Apte in Kunku. Pic 2-Amruta Khanvilkar as Durga Khote in possibly … Continue reading
Posted in 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, 20th century, Actor, Cinema, Costume, Culture, Dance, Dancer, Early 20th Century, fashion, Film Costuming, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian Women, Maharashtra, Movies, Sari, Sari Blouse, sari history, Vintage, vintage fashion, vintage sari
Tagged bindi, Durga Khote, film costumes, Jait re jait, Jayshree Gadkar, Maharashtra, Manoos, nauwari, nine yard sari, Rajmukut, Sadhi Mansa, Shanta Apte, Smita Patil
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The 1980s Recap
Apologies for my absence! As always on tumblr the 1980s. Not the best of decades for fashion but damn young Supriya Pathak was a goddess. And my style icon back in time. And a good actress to boot – someone … Continue reading
Posted in 1980s, 20th century, Actor, Bollywood, churidar kameez, Cinema, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian Women, Salwar Kameez, Sari, Sari Blouse, Sets, Vintage, Vintage Blouse, vintage fashion, vintage sari
Tagged 1980s, churidar, Indian fashion, jayalalitha, kameez, salwar, sari, sari blouse, sari history, sivasankari, Supriya Pathak
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Bali
I spent some time in Ubud, Bali and despite being overrun with tourists it seemed to suffer little from the usual soulless nature of such places. It helped that I wasn’t in Ubud “proper” though I missed out on a … Continue reading
Posted in 21st century, Asia, Contemporary, Costume, Culture, Flowers, Girls, Hinduism, South East Asia, Travel, Women
Tagged bali, Hinduism, kamen, kebaya, ritual cloth, tirta empul, ubud, upacara
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The Autumn Post
We are kind of heading towards autumn in India. Less marked by weather and more by festivals these days. So a little bit about the kuṟiñci, an autumnal flower, that bloomed in some parts of the South this year. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Flora, Flowers, il nadu, oetry, Paintings, rinji, Seasons, South India, Tamil, Tribal
Tagged autumn, contemporary, kurinji, poetry, remya kumar, Tamil Nadu
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The 1970s Recap
Wrapped up the 1970s on tumblr: 1970s, sari history, fashion history. And a very random round up of the decade it was: Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister with a decisive majority in 1971. The same year the Indo-Pakistan war … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 20th century, Actor, Bengal, Bollywood, Culture, Feminism, History, India, Indian Cinema, Indian fashion, Indian men, Indian Women, Politics, Sari, Sari Blouse, sari history, Tumblr, vintage sari, Women
Tagged 1970, 1970s, Amar Chitra Katha, emergency, india, Indian fashion, indian politixs, Indira Gandhi, nuclear india, panna dossa
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Plucky Girl
Sanskrit poetry is so often full of lovelorn ladies unable to bear separation from the hero (Virahotkanthita Nayika). And this recurs often in those Radha-Krishna paintings. And of course Hindi cinema is full of “viraha” songs. But none of that … Continue reading
Posted in 7th century, 8th century, Ancient India, Feminism, Girls, Indian Women, Literature, Love, Poetry, Romance, Sanskrit, Women
Tagged amaru, amaru shataka, love, poetry, Sanskrit, Sanskrit Poetry, separation, women
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Vintage Indian Clothing 