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PG - MAHT - Studio - 3 | Monsoon 2020 | Remembering Famine, Cafes and Partition

Remembering Famine, Cafes and Partition

  • Student UNDAVIYA VISHWA HITESH
  • Code PG191141
  • Faculty Architecture
  • Tutor/s Sonal Mithal
  • TA Ashwatha Chandran

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The semester was divided into three module. Each module looked at city of Calcutta in a different manner. In first module I have studied the settlement pattern of destitute during famine of 1943. Second module explores various types of cafes of Calcutta during 1920. Last module comprises of selection and curation of archival content related to Bengal Partition

Palimpsest showing squatting of migrants in the city of Calcutta
Making of the palimpsest
Archives and its representation in the map
Writing the Essay
Stereotyping Cafes of Calcutta during 1920
References and its use in making the drawing
Curating Content for Partition Museum
Selection of Content
1905 Exhibit
1947 Exhibit