On November 7, Delhi-based photographer Ram Rahman will retrace Janah's journey in an illustrated lecture at Teen Murti auditorium. There are more than 500 photographs, shot between 1939 and 1971. "He has an unusual range of work, varying from political photographs to industrial images, from pictures of actors and dancers to those of tribals. The photo lecture will bring together this large corpus of work to reflect the period," says Rahman. There are images of a smiling Mahatma Gandhi and MA Jinnah during the landmark 1944 meeting, where the two leaders discussed the possibility of a Hindu-Muslim accord, as well as tea pickers in Darjeeling hills, and tribals from the Nilgiri and the Northeast.

Some of the photographs have been a part of a retrospective of Janah curated by Rahman in New York in 1998. Based in Berkeley, California, now, Janah will not be present for the lecture. His pictures will tell the story.