The gods expected him to make a temple

This is a picture of my paternal ancestor, Seth Ram Gopal Malani, most likely taken in the late 1890s. We conjecture that this photograph was taken by the Raja Deendayal and Sons studio like most of the pictures within our family from this time.

On our last name ‘Telang’

IMP Research Intern : Priyanka Balwant Kale, Pune Image and Narrative Points contributed by Sumedha Deshmukh, Pune The above photograph is of my parents, Rajaram and Annapurna Telang, taken in Urun-Islampur (Islampur for short, in Sangli District) Maharashtra, in 1956. The image below shows my older siblings, Ramesh and Snehlata, photographed in 1955 when they […]