The Urban Conservation Committee successfully executed the extension of the Conservation Laboratory at the Asiatic Society, and the restoration space is already being utilized. This project got widespread publicity in various daily newspapers, and generated a lot of awareness for Rotary Club and its activities. The committee also hosted an evening Rotary Meeting on 20th September, 2016...
RCB’s contribution to Asiatic Library’s book conservation capabilities received a lot of appreciation from the press in the form of large features. Thus, the Public Relations Committee has been effective in acquiring wide media coverage across the topmost publications for Asiatic Library lab as well as for Mr. Raghuram Rajan....
The restoration of Asiatic Society’s Conservation Lab was spearheaded by RCB’s Urban Heritage Renewal Committee under the leadership of PP Dr. Sonya Mehta, with a view to restore, digitize and preserve the literary treasures that resided in the Town Hall of Mumbai. Despite its competent team of conservationists, the Society was unable to meet its expected number of book restorations in a...
The Urban Heritage Renewal Committee is pleased to announced the launch of ‘Conservation Laboratory at the Asiatic Library’, during the evening weekly Club meeting at the Asiatic Society on September 20, 2016. The inauguration will be followed by the meeting in the Durbar Hall, where guest speaker Mr. P. Sainath, author, eminent journalist and Magsaysay Award winner, will address the Club....
The Town Hall which houses the Asiatic Society of Mumbai is a heritage building, located deep in the city's historic Fort area, shaped by colonial geography, architecture and sculpture. The Asiatic Society of Mumbai forms part of the network of institutions created by the British to generate, systematize and disseminate knowledge of India and the...
The Asiatic Society is doing all that it can to preserve ageing, decaying manuscripts. It has also taken up the task of reproducing certain old treatises so that the knowledge contained in them is not lost to posterity. One of the rare books that it has just republished is "Colloquies on The Simples & Drugs...