From the Stacks of the IFA Archive | A Conversation with Mangesh Narayanrao Kale and Pankti Desai | October 12, 2023

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) and Indorama Charitable Trust
invite you to
From the Stacks of the IFA Archive
with Mangesh Narayanrao Kale and Pankti Desai
in conversation with Sachin Ketkar
(This session will be held in Marathi and English)

Thursday, October 12, 2023 | 06:30 PM IST onwards | Zoom and Facebook Live

In what ways have little magazines contributed to discourses of modernity and cultural identity? What do the visual design, printing, and publishing strategies tell us about the times they were published in? Why is archiving these magazines an important creative endeavour? 

Join us to listen to grantees of IFA Mangesh Narayanrao Kale and Pankti Desai, who worked on Marathi and Gujarati little magazines respectively, leading to the research into and digitisation of crucial publications. They will speak about the challenges encountered during their projects, the kind of archival materials generated from their explorations, and possibilities of new work coming out of it. They will also be in conversation with Sachin Ketkar.

Mangesh Narayanrao Kale is a Marathi poet, artist, and editor. He received a grant from IFA under the Arts Research and Documentation programme. The project enabled Mangesh to map the little magazine movement in Maharashtra from 1881 to the present. Read more about the project at the online archive.   

Pankti Desai is an Assistant Professor at the Government Engineering College, Valsad. She is interested in modernist Indian literature, translation studies, literary historiography, and cultural studies and has been documenting and researching little magazine movements in Gujarat since 2015. She received a grant from IFA under the Arts Research programme to analyse the role of Gujarati little magazines between the 1960s and 1980s. Read more about the project.

Sachin Ketkar is a bilingual poet, translator and academician, currently teaching English at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) Baroda. He specialises in comparative literature and translation studies.

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Launched in 2018, The IFA Archive is a space that holds the diverse materials of the projects supported and implemented by IFA over the years, currently featuring materials from 527 projects online at theifaarchive.org

From the Stacks (formerly The IFA Archive Open House) is a series of conversations with artists and scholars around the materials deposited at the IFA Archive at the end of their projects.

The IFA Archive is built with support from Indorama Charitable Trust.