D Kajri Jain ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Posters and 'framing pictures7 on sale at a pavement stall in Delhi. 2. Images of women in 'calendar art": a pavement stall in Delhi, January 1992. 3. Santoshi Mata, the mother goddess whose cult was propagated by the film Jai Santoshi Maa: Ideal Products calendar, 1992. . 89 4. Postcard bought at a'trendy gift shop in Sydney. The copyright details on the back are indicative of the exoticizing consumer economy by which this image has been appropriated: "Eden Centre III, © BIZARRWORLD, Printed in Germany'. 5. Clock and calender in a Delhi shop. The JAL calendar depicts Ganesh, the remover of obstacles or Vighneswara ('to be prepared is everything'). 6. Ravi Varma's painting Viswamitra and Menaka (Laxmivilas Palace, Baroda). The waterfalls and mountains in the background have found their way into many god-pictures, with an almost identical treatment. (Reproduced from E.M.J. Venniyoor, Raja Ravi Varma.) 7. The collage technique: Sita, with her sons Lav and Kush painted over a photographic background. (Ideal Products calendar, 1992.) 8. Specialized muslim calenders on sale around the Jama Masjid, Delhi, January 1992. The picture area is much smaller than in the hindu calendars, or those from Ideal Products, and typography dominates. 9. 1992 muslim calendar from Ideal Products. 10. Ideal Products calendar of Lord Balaji, sacred icon of the temple complex at Tirupati, where vast amounts of wealth have been accumulated through the offerings of devotees. 11. Calendar babies (Ideal Products, 1992). 12. Militant nationalist leaders of the freedom movement (Ideal Products, 1992). Left to right, top row: Rana Pratap, Subhas Chandra Bose, Shivaji; bottom row: Bhagat Singh, scene from Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, Chandrashekhar Azad. The hero singled out for detailed description is a sikh, shown here with his long hair (there has been some controversy as to whether he kept it and whether or not he can therefore be appropriated as a hero of sikh nationalism). 13. The Nehru dynasty: note the caption (Ideal Products, 1992). 14. Still from the BJP/VHP propaganda video from the temple at Ayodhya, Bhaye Prakat Kripala (roughly translated. The Merciful Lord Made Manifest}, eventually banned by the Congress government (these are taken from an excerpt from it featured in Anand Patwardhan's documentary in the Name of God). This sequence recreates the 'appearance7 of the child Rama within the premises of the Babri mosque. 15. The monkey-god Hanuman, supreme bhakta (devotee) and unfailing servant of Rama, Laksh-mana and Sita — Rama is shown as being always (literally) in Hanuman's heart. (Ideal Products calendar, 1992.) 16. Vegetable seller with calendar hung from a tree. Notice the flowers directly under it. Numbers 27-28