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Memories of a Dream
My mother is a self-taught painter, who turned 85 last year and is slowly turning blind. Despite the hardship of aging, she still paints....

Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
Jan 7, 20222 min read


The Beauty of small Things
When, towards the end of the 19th century, the great German novelist and travel writer Theodor Fontane wrote that “the whole world is...

Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
Jan 3, 20222 min read


The amazing Roger Ballen
A few years ago, in 2015, I met the South African photographer and artist Roger Ballen at a talk during one of his solo shows in India. I...

Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
Dec 31, 20212 min read


Visiting Bapi Das in Kolkata
If you only have a name and try to search for a person in a city of 14 Million people, how fast will you find that stranger? It took me...

Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
Dec 30, 20211 min read
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