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Sujaan Mukherjee

Sujaan Mukherjee, is a regular Scroll.in contributor

If this rare Kolkata museum shuts down, Bengal will lose a part of its soul

The Gurusaday Museum, which has a priceless collection of art from undivided Bengal, faces closure due to lack of support and funds.

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Feb 26, 2018 · 11:30 am
Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images of the Madras famine?

Willoughby Wallace Hooper, who shot the famine of 1876-1888, often referred to the people in his pictures as objects.

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Nov 20, 2017 · 11:30 am
How Britain’s love affair with ‘the world’s most beautiful tree’ blossomed in Calcutta

The story of Amherstia nobilis figures a governor general, a fairy tale, and a landmark day in labour history.

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Jun 16, 2017 · 03:30 pm

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The Endpapers Archive: how a project to collect inscriptions in books was born

One of the co-creators explains the motivation and the methods of this unique effort to preserve biblio-memories.

Sujaan Mukherjee
· Oct 24, 2015 · 08:45 am