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  • Photograph is a close-up shot of a number of visiting cards from the author’s collection scattered on a surface. These are the cards of ‘Akhbar-E-Mashriq’, an Urdu daily newspaper published from Kolkata; late anthropologist Dr. Moni Nag; Moulin Rouge Restaurant, Park Street, Kolkata; People Tree, Parliament Street, Delhi; Pride Publications Private Limited, Bombay; and Reshma Lodge, Station Road, Midnapur. There are two other cards – one that shows a few Chinese alphabets (the rest of the details are hidden by the other cards); another unnamed card that shows a black and white sketch of a tall, slender and sharp-featured white woman dressed in Victorian style clothing, including a large hat. Some of the cards are on glossy paper, others on cardstock (thick) paper often used for business cards, and one is on handmade paper. Most cards are horizontal in orientation. Photo credit: Pawan Dhall
    From the Archives, Travel Travel Apr '17

    (Re)visiting cards

    By Pawan Dhall

    A friend’s request for information about hotels in Midnapur town leads Pawan Dhall to look into rarely used visiting card diaries, and the cards trigger memories of the queer scenario...

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