Remembering Gandhi, Questioning India, a three-day event organised by Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad will explore the relevance of Gandhi, 75 years after his assassination. The centrepiece of the event will be the photo exhibition Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy, from the Aditya Arya Archive, curated by photographer Aquin Mathews.
The exhibition will feature photographs taken by one of India’s earliest and well-known photojournalists, Kulwant Roy, who documented some of the most significant moments in Gandhi’s life.
Born in 1914 in Bagli Kalan, Ludhiana, Kulwant Roy had no formal training in photojournalism. According to biographic archival data, he learnt on the job at Gopal Chitter Kuteer, the studio in Lahore where he worked. In the late 1930s, as a young photographer, Roy began recording the activities of the Indian National Congress. He photographed Jawaharlal Nehru as a Seva Dal volunteer in Kanpur and was always there to receive Mahatma Gandhi at Delhi’s Nizamuddin Railway Station.
