Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University has been awarded an IFA Grant under their Archives and Museums Projects for one year 2024-25, to work with the collection at the Zapurza Museum of Arts and Culture, Pune. Dr Kaikini as the Principal Investigator, will be researching the narratives of the intellectual history of Bombay and Pune of the 19th and 20th centuries and will situate the museum and its collection within the larger context of the history of Pune and its traditions of ‘avant-garde’ and the manners in which it intersected with its pre-modern, and modern historical inheritance.
Read about the grant here: