RV Pandit (an East Indian Christian, born Thomas Ignatius Rodrigues in Vasai earlier Bassein lives in Bangalore
Marianne On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM fredericknoronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guess we know so little about aspects of our own past... this is an > important aspect, Duarte. I've heard of RV Pandit's work in photography, > and the photo-made-into-a-stamp which he created of Gandhi (or > Gandhi/Nehru) was in the news some time back here. But so few links > available online about this aspect of his work. > > To complicate things, there is another RV Pandit (an East Indian > Christian, born Thomas Ignatius Rodrigues in Vasai earlier Bassein) and > has been a prominent publisher/film-maker in Bombay in more recent decades. > Do let us know how the study goes, and share any links when possible. Many > thanks! FN > > PS: Does anyone feel there is a need for a study on Goan photographers in > the Diaspora/Daizpora, in places ranging from Malaysia/Singapore to Kanpur, > East Africa and the paparazzi in the UK even today, apart from other places > we have perhaps forgotten? > > On Friday 5 April 2024 at 21:30:02 UTC+5:30 duarte...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Dear all, I am writing on R. V. Pandit, especially interested in the >> relation between his poems and his lesser-known activity as photographer. I >> am reading S. M. Tadkodkar's booklet on him, where I gathered this info: >> >> "He won prizes at all India level for his photographs. He had taken >> photographs of the Mahatma, for which he earned a gold medal in 1948. He >> printed a calendar featuring the Mahatma after selling gold-buttons gifted >> by his mother-in-law and some gold ornaments of his wife. This calendar >> also brought him name and fame. Government of free and sovereign India >> released his frames of the Mahatma on national postage stamps and currency >> notes. But Pandit neither said his Mahatma photographs nor made ttlem his >> asset for recognition as a Ga-:- Pandit in the movement for freedom of >> India" >> (...) >> His first photograph having a caption 'Sting Tail Fish' was published in >> the school magazine at Pune, which earned the first prize as well. His >> first photograph titled 'A Boy on a Hill' was published on the centre page >> of KODAK INDIAN MAGAZINE and continued such publication there on. He >> exhibited aesthetic sense through his photography and his photographs were >> published in the noted periodicals viz., THE TROPICAL PHOTOGRAPHY, THE >> LENS-LIGHT COLUMNS etc. But, he never dreamt that this liking would take >> him to greater heights! His name was included in 'Who's who in Indian >> photography? (p. 7-9)" >> >> Does anyone have any indication of where I could find these photos? Any >> online archives containing these digitized magazines? Any help would be >> much appreciated >> >> All the best, >> Duarte >> -- >> >> *Duarte Drumond Braga* >> >> >> >> Investigador | Researcher >> >> Centro de Estudos Comparatistas | Centre for Comparative Studies >> >> Faculdade de Letras | School of Arts and Humanities >> >> Universidade de Lisboa | University of Lisbon >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/1b174969-326e-46c1-ba3d-57882d78a76bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/1b174969-326e-46c1-ba3d-57882d78a76bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Dr Marianne de Nazareth Former Asst. Editor, The Deccan Herald, Freelance Environmental Journalist Fellow UNFCCC, UNEP, UNWater Editor Romantic Getaways https://www.bellaonline.com/ http://mariannedenazareth.blogspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAOqQHeJ%3D2S1Ss%3D5aNtajzBHk8XEOpniNkgYfqX7fK4q5Jc-kFg%40mail.gmail.com.
