Before the advent of electronic means of communication, leading traders used to share information on the prices of commodities and relevant economic (and political) developments through newsletters popularly known as market reports or vyapar samachar.

This exhibition curates select editions of two such newsletters published from Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. These newsletters report prices of more than twenty agricultural commodities and truck freight charges for various districts of Rajasthan.

The exhibition, curated by Vikas Kumar, faculty member, Azim Premji University, draws upon more than four hundred issues of these newsletters mailed to a trader in Ladnun, Rajasthan, spanning a period of six years between 1989 and 1994 and illuminates the political and economic contexts of liberalisation. 

These issues include terse notes on various developments including political instability in the late 1980s, anti-reservation protests, the Ayodhya dispute, the Gulf War, and unrest in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.