A disappointing Akshaya Tritiya for jewellers
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Amid pandemic situation and partial lockdown, business remains dull
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Customers looking at gold ornaments at a shop in Vijayawada on Friday which coincides with Akshaya tritiya. | Photo Credit: GIRI KVS
Amid pandemic situation and partial lockdown, business remains dull
Akshaya Tritiya, considered an auspicious day, witnessed subdued activity on Friday as the COVID-19 pandemic has dampened the spirits of people for the second consecutive year.
Gold merchants said with Akshaya Tritiya falling in the lockdown/curfew period for two successive years, the gold and jewellery trade suffered a big setback. Consumer demand, as compared to previous years, nosedived. Stores were either closed or operated only for a few hours due to the restrictions in place.
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In August 1998, I had curated a large exhibition of the great photographer Sunil Janah in New York. Kumar Kalantri, an eccentric desi with great energy had set up a large loft internet café and Gallery on Broadway near New York University He gave us a free hand to mount any show we liked.
I persuaded Janah to bring a few suitcases full of vintage prints from his home in Wimbledon, England. We mounted this exhibition with no funds, no frames and on Jerry-rigged foam core boards – a real jugaad job. To show his work in its complete form I decided to exhibit almost 600 images from the 1940s through the ’60s. It was the biggest retrospective ever of his work.