From the archive record
It was like any other day, for each individual it carried with it its own significance. On page 4 of the Hindustan Times published that day from New Delhi, was one Mr. B.D. Kapoor wanted to rent a 4 bedroom flat in Connaught Place. On page 7 of the same newspaper, there was an advertisement for Hind bicycles and another for a Chevrolet car. On the same page, there was a matrimonial ad for a 26-year-old Mathur girl. Ordinary images, intertwined with even more mundane ones. In a government office in the Capital, a lone bureaucrat typed a document that detailed the inventory of items belonging to the Food and Agriculture Department, a catalogue of Government possessions. 600 inkstands, 3 staff cars, 2 sofa sets and 40 chamber pots, a litany of items which would in some future day expose the u