Tag: #lettersofconcern

#applications (4) #beingastudent1 (2) #compelleddrum (3) #echos (1) #geniuses (1) #lettersofconcern (9) #listeningtoimages (7) #machineman (2) #mycompelleddrum (1) #proof (5) #reconstruction (6) #researchprocess (7) #unsharpness (2) #visitingthemuseum (7)

  • No.1 Being a student I

    No.1 Being a student I

    S. Muthian (student at Annamalai University) to G.D. Naidu25.03.1948 LETTER Respected Sir,I introduce myself as an Engineering student of Annamalai University, and if I can add any more to this introduction I can say that I am one of the most unfortunate men on this earth, who have not yet seen you so far and…


  • No. 2 Machine Man

    No. 2 Machine Man

    Address by Prof. Humayun Kabir at Radio Theatre “Gopal Bagh”, Coimbatore9.9.1948 SPEECH Well, what is the education, outside, to draw your attention?Generally in India there is a very great lack of discipline. You must have discipline. Unless you have discipline, you can not do anything at all. Why is it that a machine works so…


  • Being a student I A collection of letters from the book “My compelled Drum Series”, eds. GD Naidu, Coimbatore 1948, UMS Press.


  • in the library (1)

    in the library (1)

    Videostill,watching an old VHS-Tape in the process of its digitization: “trip to the fair and to waterfalls”, with S Nagamanickam (daughter of G.D. Naidu), the librarian Tangesh Pandy, Coimbatore, 2012


  • In the library (2)

    In the library (2)

    Videostill,watching an old VHS-Tape in the process of its digitization: “trip to the fair and to waterfalls”, with S Nagamanickam (daughter of G.D. Naidu), the librarian Tangesh Pandy, Coimbatore, 2012


  • In the library (3)

    In the library (3)

    …with S Nagamanickam (daughter of G.D. Naidu), the librarian Tangesh Pandy, Coimbatore, 2012


  • In the library (4)

    In the library (4)

    Videostill,watching an old VHS-Tape in the process of its digitization: “trip to the fair and to waterfalls”, with S Nagamanickam (daughter of G.D. Naidu), the librarian Tangesh Pandy, Coimbatore, 2012


  • In the library (5)

    In the library (5)

    These are photographs of a journey across the Pacific ocean in the late 1930s.


  • In the library (6)

    In the library (6)

    Videostill,talking with the librarian Tangesh Pandy about old photographs made at Gopal Bagh, the factory hall built by G.D. Naidu and his company UMS (United Motor Services), Coimbatore, 2012 A letter I write to you from Esslingen Zell. It’s a suburp of Esslingen, which again is a suburp of Stuttgart. People here are wealthy. You…