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The 10-armed goddess Ujjaini Mahankali fights the demon-king Mahishasura. This is a wall painting adorning the walls of a Mahankali Temple at the Secunderabad Railway Station. The temple is relatively new and is patronized by one of the railway porter uni

Fig. 35: Shatrughan Sinha with the Left Front Sports Minister Subhash Chakrabarty for Bakeshwar ’89 (no details of publication).

Fig. 05: Artist: K. Mahadevan.

Urdu advertisement of clocks. Prop. Seth Shiv Lal, Jhansi. Circa 1927.

Fig. 17. Making an arzi or request at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer, in the film Khwaja ki Diwani, director: Akbar Balam, 1981.
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Fig. 60: Khilji and Kafur in a bathtub. Screenshot from Padmaavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2018).
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Mahatma Gandhi, c. 1931, Ravi Varma Press, Malavli G.I.P. and Anant Shivaji Desai, Mumbai, Oleograph. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

PLAYER, SAFETY MATCHES, NEW BHARATH MATCH WORKS, VILATHIKULAM. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.264.003]

VIVEKANANDA SAFETY MATCHES, VIMW. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.102.002]

PENGUIN. PRICE RE, 0.0.6. SPECIAL SAFETY MATCH. VANJ MATCH PERAMBAVOOR. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.255.004]

PRAKASH (Also in Hindi Text). SAFETY MATCHES. 50'S 20 PS. DAMP PROOF. [Tamil Text]. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.276.007]

Sarojini, DATAR MATCH FACTORY, PETLAD, SAFETY MATCHES, Printed matchbox labels, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.038.018]

Fig. 01: Message of Love. Print signed by T.B. Vathy, Nagercoil, published by Ravi Varma Press, Malavli, c. 1948. Priya Paul Collection. See this image in other essays/contexts on Tasveer Ghar: Indian constitution - Tamil language.

Images in concrete of the goddess and the slain demon adorn the arch of the Mahankali Temple located in General Bazaar, Secunderabad. Also shown is the buffalo, the demon's vehicle. Such concrete images frequently supplement painted and carved images in many shrines. Digital Photograph, Joe Christopher, Hyderabad, 2009.

Fig. 36: Sridevi paying homage to the departed MGR.

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