Love for history
Making history come alive The Hindu – EDGE – published this piece on 22 nd January, 2018. It is an abridged version of the piece published by Teacher Plus in its November 2017 issue. The piece in EDGE here and Teacher Plus here . Thanks are due to Shalini and The Hindu. ‘ She is not interested in museums ’, a friend said, of his daughter. He left me wondering. The history lover in me was not very happy. I frequent museums and try to savour those at places I visit. Here I speak not just of large and exquisite collections like the ones at the Prince of Wales Museum in Bombay but also of smaller museums. Museums in capitals of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland have taught me about the homes and festivals of people there, the clothes they once wove and wore, their fishing and cultivation practices and more. Today, we also have privately owned museums. Some of them like the textile and vessel museums at Ahmedabad boast of very focused and novel collections. Then, of...