Sunil Janah, the leading Communist photographer of the last years of the freedom movement and early years of Independence, died on June 21 in the United States.
New York Times obituary at
From a 1998 interview with Sunil Janah:
“I am still,’’ Janah says, “undoubtedly a believer in socialism.’’ Capitalism remains for him an “insane system, based on greed. Its basic feature is that the greedier you are, the higher you go – this is hardly a society, it is a wilderness.’’
The full article is below:
Documenting society and politics
Note: although the link to the photograph mentioned in the article is no longer active, the photograph was archived from the link, and is here.
