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From PhalkeFactory

We photograph things to drive them out of our minds. My stories are my way of shutting my ears: Kafka.

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Atomic Theory of electricity.

A proposal that electric and magnetic fields filled the void.

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From this came many proposals- can not we plug into this all pervasive energy in the air? and run our civilisation on this endless resource? Nikolas Tesla was to ask.

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Calcutta International Exhibition to encourage art wares. However while art wares were displayed, the precedence of fine art in art schools and in the minds of the general public became more and more evident. Oils, watercolours and drawings by the Calcutta Art School( a commercial enterprise run by ex students) were shown and given medals, copies of Ajanta frescoes by students of the Bombay art school got medals. There was an educational section demonstrating the progress oof teaching in art schools in India. Calcutta Art Studio lithographs and Poona Chitrashala Press oleographs were also praised for the 'perfect marriage' between Western and Indian methods.