Stories on social media serve a range of purposes. They showcase our collections through storytelling for a wide range of audience. Creative skills learned by our students also introduce them to aspects of Digital History. 'Doing' and 'writing' women's history is also a means of Public History and makes College Women see themselves in relation to wider networks.
This story peeks into College Theatre in the 1950s and features notable theatre personalities and Miranda House alumni Madhur Jaffrey and Jalabala Vaidya. College Theatre is also part of a wider history of urban and national theatre.
How do women and colleges figure in the histories of music? When artists perform in educational institutes, they do not merely entertain rather they share their knowledge and musical experience with a younger generation of learners. How did SPIC MACAY begin and what role does it have?
Find out about the legendary Begum Akhtar's performance at Miranda House through this digital story.
Colleges can also offer young women their first exposure to different traditions of music and arts. In the context of teacher-disciple or guru shishya tradition in music and dance forms, where do college women fit in? What do we know of student music societies and their contribution to the music scene in the city and beyond?
This digital story features alumni Rekha Surya, the disciple of Begum Akhtar and an award winning singer of Hindustani music.
College archives document changing trends in dress and fashion. Markers of economic, social and religious identities, clothes often tell their own history. Moving away from fashion as markers of style, watch this story of a group of young budding women entrepreneurs who started their own fashion label while in College.
Colleges and women are part of the larger ecosystem. Sustainability, global warming and environmental issues are part of our lives as well as the history of our city and country. How can our collections help you know more about our environment? Find out about the Tornado that struck Delhi in 1977 in this story. What about the bird species and flora and fauna in our immediate environs in the University? Has it changed? Read our story on the 'Birds' of Miranda.
Women's Colleges like Miranda House are built by women and men who form a part of its core administrative team along with the teaching staff. See this incredible story of partnership when faculty and non-teaching members started a special Karamchari Natya-Sangh.
As COVID-19 struck, our understanding of College and the World at large changed. During the Pandemic, all struggled to survive, protect their loved ones and to understand what it means to 'connect' with people. Although digital tools helped us rebuild the archive, redefine the Campus and the Classroom, the signs of this Pandemic are yet to be studied and documented. What does collecting the digitally born materials mean in this time? For this and more stay tuned.
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