This online research resource shows India's evolution through various mediums

Updated On: 05 May, 2025 09:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Nandini Varma

A new online research resource by curator and archivist Neville Tuli offers immense scope into the evolution of India through the ages via art, cinema, music and architecture, among other sections

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(From left) A view of the Akbar Padamsee painting, Prophet I, sold at an auction; an invite to a 1966 exhibition of Gieve Patel’s paintings in New Delhi; a screenshot from the Sharmila Tagore Archives depicting The actress on a famous cover photograph of a magazine

Last week, curator, archivist and writer Neville Tuli launched the Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (TRIS). TRIS is a digital platform that seeks to function as a search engine and a repository for researchers, scholars, creative professionals, and the general public interested in India Studies. It reflects over 30 years of Tuli’s efforts towards archiving India and providing an alternative educational framework, free from interfering ideology and its dependence on funding. He tells us over the call from Delhi, “Unless education is first fundamentally free of patronage, it becomes very hard to maintain a certain integrity.”

Neville Tuli at an exhibition. Pics Courtesy/ Tuli Research Centre for India Studies, New Delhi (TRIS)