Of the Record

Of the Record

Of the Record

Kolkata

Of the Record

May 17, 2025,
6.00pm - 7.30pm

TBA

Tracing the formation of the West Bengal State Archives in postcolonial India through a documentary film by scholar Parnisha Sarkar, followed by a discussion with archivists Sarmistha De and Bidisha Chakraborty on the bureaucratic structures that shape the archives and the people who breathe life into them.

A Weekend in Museums returns for its second edition, travelling from rooftops to screening rooms, reimagining museums and archives as spaces of open access and interpretation, through films that traverse personal memories and institutional repositories.