Dateline New Delhi: Hamaara Itihaas: an exhibition dedicated to the freedom struggle with special emphasis on women freedom fighters will be open for the public from 9th to 23rd August at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi.
The exhibition will contain archives of oral testimonies, photos, audio, video and film recordings across India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar. Also on display will be photos and documents from London, Paris, Geneva, Stuttgart, San Francisco and other places, showing that India’s freedom struggle was both revolutionary and non-violent.
Rare documents of the paper, ‘Bande Mataram’ and ‘Talvar’ started by Madam Bhikaiji Cama and The Ghadar Party based in Vancouver and San Francisco will also be on display.
A special section will be dedicated to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army, based in south-east Asia with a particular focus on the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, one of the earliest all-woman military regiments of the world.
Hamaara Itihaas will also screen ‘Asli Azaadi’ a 41 minute documentary Directed by Sagari Chhabra on women freedom fighters as she felt that, ‘The courage and sacrifice of our freedom fighters, most of whom have gone unsung and unrecognised, deserves to be recorded.’
The exhibition will be inaugurated by Dr. Varsha Das (eminent author, poet, and former director of the National Gandhi Museum) on 8th August 5:30 pm.
Founder-director, Sagari Chhabra is an award-winning author-poet, film-director, journalist, broadcaster, prolific writer and an educationist who has worked across literary genres. Since 1995 she has been the founder-director of the Hamaara Itihaas Archives of Freedom Fighters a not-for-profit, educational initiative for public education meant to be inspirational as well as educational for the young generation.
The timings of the exhibition are from 11:00 hrs to 19:00 hrs. Sagari Chhabra will conduct a walk-through daily at 5.30 pm at the venue.
