From the archive record
It was like any other day for each individual it carried with it its own significance on page four of the Hindustan Times published that day from New Delhi Mr. B. D Kapur wanted to rent a four bedroom flat in Cannought Place. On page seven of the same newspaper, there was an advertisement for a Hind bicycle and another for a Chevrolet car. On the same page, there was a matrimonial advertisement for a 26 years old Mathur girl. Ordinary images intertwined with even more mundane ones. In a government office in the capital a lone bureaucrat type a document that detailed an inventory of items belonging to the food and agriculture department. A catalog of government possessions 600 inkstands, three staff cars, two sets of sofas, forty chamber pots. A litany of items which would in some future da