This article is an excerpt from Growing Up Underground, the new coming-of-age memoir by Steven Heller published by Princeton Architectural…
It is safe to say that for anyone who grew up in India in the decades following the 1950s, Air-India’s…
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In 1966, Scott Paper Co., an American company that made a range of paper products, released an advertisement for their…
Last summer, while browsing the fiction aisles at Powell’s Books in Portland, a fat black spine caught my attention. At…
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This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
In 1928, The Saturday Evening Post, then the US’s most popular illustrated weekly, heralded “The New Age of Color.” The…
In the early ’70s, artist, publisher, and activist Raja Dhale published a pocket-sized magazine called Chakravarty for thirteen consecutive days. …
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If you lived in the state of Maharashtra in India during the ’70s and ’80s, you probably had the Kalnirnay…
