The team had no desire to fight because the individual who delivered the ultimatum was powerful. The team chose to rebrand the entire film festival, which they considered would be better and would prevent any conflict with former team members of the Ooty Film Festival. Even though you lead the team, there are times when […]
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Suresh called, and it was a conference call. Jai, Yoga, Pasu, and Stalin were all present. Suresh told me they had all thought about and discussed all the difficulties I had raised and that they were all ready to take on the challenge of organising the film festival in December. It was a great surprise.
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In the middle of September, on a cold and rainy day in Ooty, was the time Money Heist’s final season first part got released and created a craze in the Indian audience. I finished the first episode, “End of the Road,” and was watching season 05 Episode 02, titled “Do You Believe in Reincarnation?” I
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James Waterhouse (1842-1922), was an officer in the Royal Artillery and a photographer. He was a president of the internationally know Photographic Department of the survey of India. He learned photography during his training in Addiscombe, near Croydon along with other subjects like mathematics, geology, chemistry, skills required for a military career in the Indian
John Claude White (1853 – 1918) was an engineer, photographer, writer and civil servant in British India. He travelled extensively in the Himalayas shooting with glass plates on a large-format camera. For twenty years he was stationed in Gangtok, Sikkim as the first British political officer overseeing the British interests in the states of Sikkim,
Benjamin Simpson (1831 – 1923), was a British Surgeon-General and a photographer born in Dublin. He joined the East India Company as an Assistant Surgeon in 1853. He served as the Surgeon-General for the Government of India from 1853 until 1890 and he was prudent advocate of the Empire’s values.
Thomas Alfred Rust (1841 – 1904) was a professional photographer from Stepney, London, United Kingdom.
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Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet (1845-1929), was a French traveller, writer, Geographer, archaeologist and photographer, who visited India in 1863. Amazed by the diverse richness of the landscapes, art and culture, and people, Rousselet extended his stay in India till 1868. He learnt Photography after reaching India, with a sole purpose to preserve the memory of the monuments
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Josiah Rowe (1809 – 1874) moved to India sometime before 1839 and began making daguerreotypes in the 1840s. Josiah Rowe was hailed as ‘the father of photography in India‘ by Dr F. J. Mouat, a British surgeon, chemist and the first president of the Bengal Photographic Society. Apart from journal entries, there is no evidence
James Robertson (1813–88), was an English engraver, artist and photographer who was active from 1853 to 1867 in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Crimea Palestine, Syria, Malta, Cairo and in India. Around 1852, inspired by the French engineer, Industrialist and photographer Ernest de Caranza, he took up photography, and for the next fifteen years devoted considerable time
