§ 13Gallery

A documentary record in photographs

Photographs are arranged as chapters, not as a grid. Each is shown whole — nothing is cropped — and captioned only with what can be established.

Where a date, place or occasion is not recorded with a photograph, the caption says so. Every other chapter of this website carries its own photographs; this gallery holds the pictures that belong to no single chapter. Select any photograph to view it larger; use the arrow keys to move between photographs and Escape to close.

Events · The oath of office

Rashtrapati Bhavan · 9 June 2024

Annpurna Devi, in a blue silk sari and spectacles, reads the oath at a lectern with several microphones — Pl. 1Taking the oath of office as a Union Cabinet Minister, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, 9 June 2024. A still from the broadcast of the ceremony.

Close view of Annpurna Devi speaking into a microphone during the swearing-in — Pl. 2A closer view during the oath. The ceremony followed the 2024 general election.

Women & Development · A handover of portfolio

Ministry of Women and Child Development

Annpurna Devi and Smriti Irani stand together holding a bouquet of red roses in front of a painting — Pl. 3With Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, who held the Women and Child Development portfolio in the preceding Union Council of Ministers (2019–2024). The date of the photograph is not recorded with the file.

Public Life · Portraits and meetings

Dates not recorded

Portrait of Annpurna Devi in an orange sari and stole, standing in a garden with marigolds — Pl. 4Portrait in a garden setting. Undated.

Captions record only what can be established — who, where and when — and say so when they cannot.

Annpurna Devi, wearing a stole presented to her, stands beside a visitor in a pale green sari in an office — Pl. 5A courtesy meeting at her office; the framed portrait on the wall carries her name in Devanagari. The date and the visitor are not recorded with the file.

Photographs held in other chapters

One page, one set of photographs

Photographs that document a particular subject are published with that subject, so that each picture sits beside the record it illustrates.

No photographs of Anganwadi centres, nutrition programmes or child-development field visits are held in this archive yet. The Child Development and Nutrition chapters therefore use drawn illustrations rather than unrelated or stock photographs.