SPARROW SPARROW SOUND & PICTURE newsletter ARCHIVES FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN SNL Number 21 April 2011 Publication Number 67 Published by CONTENTS Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women Editor’s Note The Nest, B-101/201/301, Patel Apartment, Maratha Colony Road, Dahisar (E), Mumbai-400068 Events: Phone: 022 2828 0895, 2896 5019 Homai Vyarawalla: A Curator’s Perspective by Sabeen Gadihoke 2-4 E mail:
[email protected] A Photographer Photographed by Roshan G Shahani Website: www.sparrowonline.org Vithabai at Maharashtra Seva Sangh, Airoli by Sharmila Sontakke Towards Equality by Priya D’souza Editor: Renutai’s Stories by Sharmila Sontakke C S Lakshmi Speaking from the Mountains by C S Lakshmi Revisiting Campaigns, Rethinking Strategies by Priya D’souza Co-editor: Malsawmi Jacob Book Review: Publication Co-ordination: The Chawls of Mumbai: Galleries of Life Pooja Pandey Edited by Neera Adarkar by Roshan G Shahani 5 Printed at : Mouj Prakashan Griha, Journeys: Khatau Wadi, Goregaonkar Lane, Girgaum, Travelling West with Homai Vyarawala by Sabeena Gadihoke 6-7 Mumbai - 400 004 Phone: 022 2387 1050 Homage: This occasional Newsletter for only private Dr. Chitra Jayant Naik, Anuthama, Nalini Jaywant circulation, is published with the support of & Nargis Banu Chikhalikar by C S Lakshmi 8 Stichting de Zaaier, Utrecht [EEditor’s NNote] his issue of SNL has become a Homai Vyarawalla special so to speak. And we are happy it has turned out to be so for India’s first woman press photographer has been honoured with a Padma Vibhushan this year T and an exhibition of her photographs archived with Alkazi Foundation and curated by Sabeena Gadihoke was held in various cities and the film produced by SPARROW and directed by Anik Ghosh on Homai was screened as part of the exhibition.