The Menezes Archive, São Matias, Goa
Ada and Armida (right, and lower center) with their mother Matilda and cousin Maria de Luz at their home in Dharwar, Karnataka, mid 1940s
Hiding in a family photo album - a postcard of Mahatma Gandhi with his personal secretary Mahadev Desai taken during the All India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay, August 8, 1942, the day that the Quit India resolution was moved
Professor Armando Menezes and a photograph of Karnatak College of which he was Vice Principal in the year 1947
Armando Menezes on the campus grounds with visitors to the university
Inscribed by Armando Menezes, a photograph of poets Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and Amal Kiran (K.D Sethna) from the early days of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Ada, a dancer on stage or off - she loved use the house garden as as a setting for her performances and taking photographs
Ada in her bharatanatyam costume, studio portrait mid 1940s
College Days: Armida and her brother Leonard with their Alsatian dog, Tervor
At their home in Dharwar with their fifth child and newborn son, Ignatious
A photomontage, made for Armando Menezes by a student of his using photographs and a scaled down model of Karnatak College
Armando Menezes addressing an assembly of students at a Karnatak College lecture hall
Armida (right) and Ada (left) in Goa, talking to our team about their family and childhood
Armida (left) and Ada (right) at their ancestral home in San Mathias, Divar, Goa
Ada performing at the Indian consulate celebrations in Panjim at the outdoor venue that later came to be known as Azad Maidan, Indian Independence Day 1954
Young women's tug of war, part of the festivities on Independence day 1947, Karnatak College, Dharwar