In the early 1930s, a small Christian praying community near Kottayam, Kerala, called for the starting of a boys’ school. Upon the shudders of seeing urchins addicted to “ganja” and “beedies”, while fighting with “a mongrel dog for a few grains of rice,” K. K. Chandy knew his vocation. In 1934, he started the “Jubilee…

This group photo from the 1960 Tenth Triennial Congress of the War Resisters’ International at the Gandhigram Ashram in South India, was taken by a local Tamil photography studio, Samy Photo, just down the road from the ashram in Chinnalapatti. From the names printed in the framed version, it is clear that the studio aimed…