Wasn't there one RV Pandit who edit a magazine, which was popular mag, whose name I have forgotten? Dom Moraes wrote for that msg.
Eugene On Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 9:47 p.m. Marianne de Nazareth <mde.nazar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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