Shipra Tiwari is a counsellor who tells parents “Your child is a Champion!” As an administrator she engages a kid, saying, “You are my favourite kid.”
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Her expertise includes adapt handling of situations like Parental Divorce / Disharmony, Bullying in School, Body-Shaming the Child, New Sibling, Change in School and City, Reading, Writing and Learning Disabilities, Bad Friends Group, Substance Abuse.
A bachelor’s in education, and an administrator-counsellor for over 25 years, Mrs. Shipra has been a counsellor for prestigious schools in Delhi NCR including Greenway Modern School, Arwachin School and Parevartan School.
She is also trained in alternative medicine and music which disciplines help her in quickly understanding the issues affecting children.
Hailing from a family of educationists and administrators, she always has had the opportunity and knack for observing, analysing and improving things that catch her fancy.
Schooling at different places – Darjeeling, Mussoorie, Guwahati, Allahabad – gave her the exposure to travel and interact with a cross-section of people, and pretty good work positions at different educational institutions enriched her with some great inputs that she is raring to put into practice with full energy and vigour.
Click on the image above to hear Mrs. Shipra speak to Business of Brands during the ‘Hear Me Out‘ campaign launched on the occasion of Women’ Day. You can also read her columns featured on Hindi news views website www.bharatbolega.com
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Walk into Museo Camera right now and you won’t find a gallery in the usual sense. You’ll find a glass box holding someone’s grandmother, not literally, but close enough that it stops you mid-step. A collection of dented steel spoons. A cup that once held aadhi cup chai. A music notebook, its pages still carrying ragas someone hummed to herself sixty years ago. And behind every single object in that case, one photographer: Vaydehi Khandelwal, known to her audience as Camerawaali.
This is her story as much as it is her grandmother’s. And it deserves to be told that way.
A decade in the making, told for the first time
“This has been a deeply personal journey for me as a photographer,” Vaydehi says of the work, and that word, personal, is doing a lot of quiet, heavy lifting. She began photographing her grandmother’s belongings almost ten years ago, long before there was ever a plan to exhibit them. Not for an audience. Not even for her family. Just for herself, a way, as she describes it, of holding on a little longer.
Her Dadi, Parvati Devi Khandelwal, passed away in 2017. For years afterward, the photographs, the diaries, the brassware and handwritten recipes stayed exactly where personal grief usually keeps things: tucked away, private, unseen. It took real courage, Vaydehi admits, to finally bring those fragments of her grandmother’s life out into a public space, and into her very first installation.
The idea behind Ghar Ki Kahaniyan, stated plainly and a diary old enough to prove it.
Known internationally as Camerawaali, Vaydehi has travelled the world with her lens. She was recently featured in a street photography exhibition in Tokyo. But for this project, her camera didn’t take her anywhere new. It brought her home, to a room in Bareilly her grandmother once filled, and to the quieter, harder work of documentary photography turned inward.
Coming from the small town of Bareilly, Vaydehi says the value of observing closely, and of finding beauty in the seemingly inconsequential, is something she learned rather early. She left home to study documentary photography in Spain, and returned to feed the same curiosity that had pulled her away in the first place. Whether she’s uncovering stories hidden in plain sight, or preserving family recipes through ANUcanCOOK, her ongoing culinary project with her mother, the question she keeps circling back to is a simple one: what do we remember, and why?
What the glass case holds
Everything in ‘It Mattered to Her’ was handpicked and arranged by Vaydehi herself. Every object chosen, every placement considered. This is precisely what makes the space feel less like a curated exhibit and more like a room someone still lives in.
There’s the brassware gifted to her grandmother on her wedding day, over eight decades old, still used in the family kitchen today – a sarsi, a jharni, a set of kalchis, each carrying, in Vaydehi’s words, a little of her grandmother’s presence into every meal cooked with them. There’s a Gangajali, a handwoven orange cloth bundle photographed at the water’s edge, captioned simply: “Her journey ended here, but everything she was lingers on in memory.” There’s a music book, pages of Hindustani notation her grandmother once used while learning the sitar from a musician in Old Bareilly’s Naya Tola, before family duties pulled her away from formal lessons, leaving only the notations behind to preserve a tune she otherwise kept to herself.
There’s a cycle bill from New Cycles Stores, a key-ring her grandmother bought her when she was six. There’s a Balti, handkerchiefs, steel tiffin carriers, soup spoons, a ‘Bhog ki Katori’ … the kind of objects that mean nothing until you know whose hands held them.
And then there’s the audio. Tucked into the installation is a recording of her grandmother’s own voice, a detail Vaydehi treats almost like a secret, something you find rather than something announced. It is, without question, the most moving element of the entire piece: not a photograph of a voice, but the voice itself.
Who Parvati Devi Khandelwal was
The exhibition doesn’t just document objects. It insists on telling you who their owner was. Born in Banaras, Parvati Devi Khandelwal completed her education at the Theosophical Society of India before marriage brought her to Bareilly. She wanted a home of her own, with more space than the cramped quarters she’d been offered, a conviction that eventually led the family to 53 Civil Lines, Bareilly, the house that would go on to hold, in Vaydehi’s words, ‘endless memories’.
Vaydehi remembers her as an incredibly soft-spoken woman, someone who only showed flashes of anger in her later years, as dementia slowly took away her independence. “Looking back, I do not think it was directed at anyone,” Vaydehi has written. “It was the frustration of surrendering control over her life. Having spent a lifetime caring for others, becoming dependent was perhaps the hardest battle she ever had to face.”
Brassware display at the Ghar Ki Kahaniyan installation, including a sarsi, jharni, kalchis, balti and keyring, with wall text about the objects’ history.
It’s this honesty, refusing to sand down the harder parts of her grandmother’s story, that gives the installation its weight. Vaydehi’s grandmother endearingly called her Chutki, and by Vaydehi’s own account, she knew things were serious only when she heard her actual name, Vaydehi, instead.
Vaydehi’s sister Shriti, in her tribute to this installation, wove her own words on her social media that reads like:
Our grandmother shrinks into a glass box Inside, with objects and photographs resting beside one another.
Time-worn diaries A music book Recipes, handwritten for her grandkids far away Nuskhas for ‘good skin’ cut-out from magazines Brassware that was part of her trousseau Handkerchiefs, saree, tiffin box, sarota and cheeni cups that held her famous ‘aadhi cup chai….
Her image stands still Surrounded by things that remember her better than us.
Perhaps this is how grandmothers remain: not as photographs alone, but as objects gathered around them— quietly holding everything we once overlooked until memory gives it a name….
The home that made this possible
None of this would exist in public view without Museo Camera – Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurugram, and the platform it offered through Ghar Ki Kahaniyan: Museum of Families and Stories – an ongoing initiative by the India Photo Archive Foundation devoted to preserving exactly this kind of overlooked, deeply personal material. It’s the reason a decade of private photographs found a room, a case, and an audience at all. But the credit for what fills that case, every object, every word, every choice, belongs entirely to Vaydehi Khandelwal.
Why you should still go
In an era of nuclear families, when grandparents so often ask for nothing more than a little extra time, ‘It Mattered to Her’ makes a gentle, insistent case: a family’s real legacy was never in the things themselves. It’s in the stories that get attached to them, and in the granddaughters willing to spend ten quiet years making sure those stories don’t disappear.
There is no ticket, no entry fee. It only asks for a little of your time.
‘It Mattered to Her’ is on view at Museo Camera, Gurugram, until 26th October, 2026. Free entry.
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Theme of the Posts
As you can see, the opening image creative above, is like the opening cover for the campaign, a hand reaching out to the dot which is called the ‘world wide net’, a reminder of ‘www’.
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If you weren’t in that room, here is what you missed.
Not a launch. Not a photo-op with a cake and a mic-drop quote. What happened at Museo Camera the other evening was quieter than that, and somehow louder. A room full of people who came for a book and left carrying a city they didn’t know they’d lost.
At the centre of it, as she has been for almost two decades now, was Shriti Tyagi.
notHERE: The Absent Presence – the third book in Shriti Tyagi’s Mumbai-Delhi series.
The woman behind the archive: Beyond Bombay and Beyond Delhi
Ask anyone who has walked a city with her, and they’ll tell you: Shriti Tyagi doesn’t give you a tour. She gives you a way of seeing. A theatre aficionado who founded The Manna Makers, a Katha Award-winning translator, a researcher on Why Loiter? Women & Risk on Mumbai Streets, a TEDx speaker, a chronicler of micro-cultures for ART India Magazine – Shriti’s résumé reads like five careers stitched into one restless curiosity. And out of that restlessness came Beyond Bombay and Beyond Delhi, the niche travel-and-culture collectives she built to make people fall in love, again, with the cities they thought they already knew.
Eighteen years of walks later – plague walks marking a century of Bombay’s bubonic outbreak, cemetery trails through Delhi, literary detours, food crawls, festival routes – Shriti has made a quiet, formidable case that a city is never just its skyline. It is memory, argument, and residue. And notHERE: The Absent Presence is the book where that argument finally gets its most complete telling.
This is her third act in the Mumbai-Delhi series – after The Tell of Two Cities (2023) and KONA, Corners. Connect. (2024) – and, as she puts it herself, the series that ‘began with places’ now ‘ends with the idea of absent-presence,’ shifting the lens from how and where things are, to how they remain.
Three years. Three conversations. Two cities. The full Beyond Bombay & Beyond Delhi trilogy.
A room that knew exactly what it was there for, and the venue mattered
Museo Camera in Gurugram lent the afternoon its hush, its gallery walls doing the quiet work of making people speak a little softer, listen a little harder. Guests walked in past a garden entrance into a space that felt less like a hall and more like a memory itself, tea and cookies doing their gentle work as readers, writers and old friends of the Beyond Bombay community filled the room. But make no mistake – this was Shriti’s evening, and everyone there knew it.
She opened the discussion the way she opens every walk: with an invitation, not a lecture. notHERE, she said, asks readers “to dwell on the traces, residues, remainders – what sociologist Avery Gordon calls ‘ghostly matter’ – that persists in names, memory, growth and spatial echoes.” The book opens with two poems by Kashmiri writer Dr Owais Farooq, who calls Delhi ‘the Phantom City’ – and from that first page, the tone was set: this was never going to be a book about what Mumbai and Delhi are. It was a book about everything they used to be, and quietly still are.
The room that showed up for absence, and left with a lot more.
Fourteen voices, one Shriti-shaped thread
Fourteen contributors lent their chapters to notHERE, and at the reading, several of them stepped up to walk the room through their piece. Voice notes from contributors who couldn’t make it in person were played out loud, their words filling the gaps in the room the same way absence fills the pages of the book.
Giraj spoke of a Ghantaghar in Chandni Chowk that no longer stands, and doesn’t even have a ghanta (bell) to its name, and yet lives on as the address everyone in the neighbourhood still gives. Sumedha Chawla told the story of a jhuggi that vanished overnight, and how its absence somehow made the people who once lived there feel more present than ever. Kabir Pandit spoke of Urdu everywhere in daily life, and yet, somehow, nowhere. Kanchan Gandhi took the room through the ache of renamed cities Bombay folding into Mumbai, Madras into Chennai, and the residents of Mani Majra in Chandigarh who fought simply to keep their own name. Shruti Sareen closed the loop with her own vanishing Delhi, college haunts and iconic addresses that now only exist online.
Four photographers lent the book its visual register, turning absence into something you could almost touch.
Some of the fourteen voices behind notHERE with Shriti Tyagi at the centre, exactly where this project has always kept her.
A book you feel before you finish reading it
The buzz in the room wasn’t only about ideas. It was tactile. Guests kept turning the book over in their hands: the matte weight of the cover, the particular scent that only comes off freshly bound pages, the taxi-and-skyline art that somehow manages to be nostalgic and unfamiliar at once. It is, quite simply, a beautiful object. You can say, the kind of book that makes you want to own it before you’ve read a single essay.
And Shriti’s own words, read aloud that evening, landed exactly the way she intended them to: “There are so many ways to interpret cities, and we are just getting started… much of the city is not here, and yet, in another sense, everywhere.”
Conversations spilled well past the last page. This is what a Beyond Bombay evening always does to a room.
Why this matters, and why it’s Shriti’s, through and through
Strip away the poetry, and here’s the plain fact: in eighteen years, one person has built an entire ecosystem. Walks, talks, a TEDx stage, editorial work, three books and counting. Can you imagine the radical idea that cities deserve to be read, not just visited? Beyond Bombay and Beyond Delhi aren’t side projects to Shriti Tyagi’s career. They are her career, and notHERE is its most confident, most literary expression yet.
If you weren’t at Museo Camera that evening, you missed the scent of new pages, the hush before Shriti read her own line back to a full room, and fourteen ways of saying the same thing: nothing is ever really gone from a city. It just moves into memory, into a book, into a voice note played out loud to a room that leaned in to listen.
notHERE: The Absent Presence is available now. Write in at beyondbombay@gmail.com to get your copy, and do find out where Shriti Tyagi and Beyond Bombay are headed next!
One signed page at a time.
By the end of the evening, the conversation had moved from the discussion chairs to the display cases at the back of the room. G Caffe – Business of Brands could see Shriti Tyagi, with pen in hand, signing copies for the readers who weren’t ready to let the evening end. It’s a small moment, but it says everything about what Beyond Bombay has built over eighteen years: not a brand people follow from a distance, but one they lean in close to, laugh with, and carry home.
Click on the image above to hear Mrs. Shipra speak to Business of Brands during the ‘Hear Me Out‘ campaign launched on the occasion of Women’ Day. You can also read her columns featured on Hindi news views website www.bharatbolega.com
