Kal Aaj Aur Kal

About 50 photographs and maps from the Kalakriti Archives appear in tandem with photos maps and plans of contemporary Hyderabad in this publication that gives us a tri-perspective of the city a recent glorious past, an ever-changing present and visions of the future. The book follows an exhibition we curated for the Agora Bienniale of Architecture, Urbanism & Design in September 2017 in Bordeaux, France. A seamless thread of visual history weaves the narrative: beginning from maps and photos from the end of the 19th century. A `before and after’ section, where contemporary photographers step into the perspectives of older ones such as Lala Deen Dayal,is also spread across these pages. Kal Aaj Aur Kal is an attempt to encapsulate an evolution of visual time that the memories of our successive older generations bear testimony to.