This evening, as part of the 57th series of the Heras Memorial Lectures presented by the Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture, St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, Ramanna will deliver a virtual presentation and lecture on the album. The session is chaired by professor Aravind Ganachari, former head of department, history, University of Mumbai. The album is available on the Internet Archive. Since Hindi Punch was modelled after British magazine Punch, the narrator is called Punchoba, who refers to this selection as a “passing darshan of his work.”

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Ramanna says, “There are many cartoons on Lord Curzon, who, as a Viceroy, did many unpopular things [such as the Tibetan expedition and the Indian Universities Act of 1904]. He was a very handsome man, and the cartoons depict him that way.” At the same time, the  cartoons support the national movement and its leaders and comment on the Indian National Congress session and the 17th Indian National Social Conference in Madras, as well as offer international news of Russo-Japanese tensions and the South African immigration law. 

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