Jayati Gupta News Today

An excerpt from ‘To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours’, edited by Rahul Sagar.

Anna Novakov and T. Novakov like a yellow silken scarf, the thick fog hangs along the quay[1] In the 1880s, London’s frequent and well-documented episodes of fog were a phenomenon unique to England’s most densely populated, diverse, and industrialized urban center. The spectacular nature of the embankment fog, often described by eyewitnesses as changeable and even colorful, caught the imagination of many artists and writers who saw in these atmospheric manifestations a symbol of modernity a...