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Ektara video magazine
September 2018
(See the list of previous issues)

Greetings and a warm welcome to Ektara, the online video magazine of history, society and culture of India and South Asia. We hope our stories and interviews will entertain and inspire you, and arouse your appetite for more about our rich and diverse pasts. Ektara magazine comes out once every two months. We need your support to keep it running.

In this new issue, we bring you the following short videos and segments:

1. Nitin Desai: The global advocate for Sustainable Development, Part 1
2. The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art at Tasveer Ghar
3. Featured video: Spain's Golden Age and La Convivencia

2. The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art at Tasveer Ghar
The Tasveer Ghar archive of South Asia's popular visual culture announces the public release of the Priya Paul collection of popular art containing more than 4000 images at the digital platform of Heidicon, the image and multimedia database of Heidelberg University, Germany. Explore here >>
Also see a write-up on the Priya Paul Collection >>

3. Featured Video: Spain's Golden Age and La Convivencia
Spain's Golden Age and La Convivencia are a milieu in Spanish history when Jews, Muslims and Christians had a tacit truce with each other and the arts and architecture flourished. A Sephardic Jew raised in the multicultural Izmir, Turkey, Rachel Amado Bortnick discusses this fascinating era.