Part of a list of captions to photographs of Album 0017

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Institute Events

Some of the captions to the photographs include ‘Music’, ‘A Song’, “Mr. Gopal Ramachandran performing ‘Magic’ with Dr. Koch”, and ‘A Tamil play by students’. This is the second part of the list of captions to the photographs. There are a total of 23 captions and photographs in this album.

Collection:

Central Photographic Section Collection

Album Name:

Seventh Institute Day

Photograph ID:

001/0017/IMG_0592_1

Album ID:

0017

Date:

12 March 1966

Place:

Open Air Theatre (OAT)

Photographer:

C. Gourishankar (1936-2002). A geologist by qualification, Gourishankar started his career as a photographer after working for many years with the Geological Survey of India. In everything that he did, Gourishankar strove to achieve flawlessness and impeccable quality. Thus his photography too was characterised by this drive for perfection. Every photograph that Gourishankar took was meticulously planned and shot and printed with diligence and patience. Gourishankar carried out most of the official photography at IIT Madras in the 1960s.

Event:

Seventh Institute Day