An Insight into the Making of Kamat's Potpourri

First Online: March 16, 2001
Page Last Updated: February 20, 2013

The making of Kamat's Potpourri (which some have hailed as exemplary of personal publishing effort) is combination of hard labor and sophisticated computer software. We are often asked how we manage this website, and in this section we will share with you some of the lessons we have learnt -- in life and while producing this site, tools we use, and hopefully, some stories behind the stories. Included are also pictures of Kamats at work.

How We Do It

Prototype Kamat A behind-the-scenes look at contents of Kamat's Potpourri with scrap pictures of paintings, drafts, and prototypes.	The Amateur Webmaster
50 Years of Kamat Photographs marking the 50 years of amateur photography by humanist Krishnanand Kamat.	Camera Monkey Article narrates Kamat's passion for photography, even when he had no facilities
Stories Behind Pictures Interesting anecdotes, and personal accounts of experiences, and stories behind the stories while producing Kamat photo collection.	Kamat's Diaries Fascination, beauty, and amusements; that's what's inside Kamat's diaries; sample pages.

• The Amateur Web Master -- topics on content navigation, usability, and website architecture

• The Kamat Rule-based FTP -- how we decide which files to upload

• The Kamat Content CrowBot -- how we insert and manage the over 100,000 hyperlinks within Kamat's Potpourri

• Inside Kamat Blog Engine -- Notes on the implementation of SimplyBlog, a blog engine.

• Parade of Icons -- love our icons? here's more of them!

Stories Behind the Stories

• The Cable Guys and the Missing Girl
• Kamat's Fascination with Insects
• Letters to a Soulmate -- A Foreword
• Kamat's Cameras -- Kamat writes about his fascination with photography
• Muslim Ladies of Kurva -- Kamat narrates an experience of photographing Muslim women of rural Karnataka. The story reveals many untold tales about Muslim women of India.
• A Historian's Saree 
• The Postman of Jobnair
• Beauty is Skin Deep -- the handicapped children of Melukote

List of Pictures

• Amma And Gindi, Oct 16, 1975
• Basava's Flower
• Best Friends
• Bird from Ajanta
• Butter Boy!
• Camera Kubja
• Cameras in Kamat's Safe
• "Can you ID this Bappa?"
• Catalog of Tribal Jewelry
• Cover of Uttara Kannada Album
• Deepavali Greetings
• Detail of a Page from Kamat's Diary
• A Diary of Imagination
• A Draft Sketch of a Cover Page
• Early Prototype of Kamat's Potpourri (1995)
• An Example of Kamat`s Letters
• Example of a Kamat Content Dispatch
• A Father and a Daughter Share a Light Moment
• First Lady of Bhanker
• High-tech using Low-tech
• Information Gathering
• Jyotsna Crossing Amdayi River
• Jyotsna Interviewing a Woman from Herangadi
• K. L. Kamat at Work
• The Kamat Content CrowBot Software
• Kamat Family Enjoying Kamat Pictures
• Kamat Photographing Waves at Karwar
• The Kamat Picture Retrieval System!
• Kamat Practicing Calligraphy?
• Kamat`s 1959 Remington Typewriter
• Kamat's First Photograph
• Kamat's First Camera
• Kashmir in Fountain Pen
• Krishna Fighting Serpent Kaliya
• Life Inspires Art
• Long time before XML/RPC, there was Post Office!
• Map of Khajuraho
• Map Showing Gundabala
• Members of a Family Cleaning Jackfruit
• The Milkmaid (Gouli), The Village of Kansur
• A Muslim and An Indian
• New Use of Contact Prints
• A Page from Kamat's Diary
• Pages from Kamat's Diary
• Passion for Photography
• Patel's Wife in the village of Modnar
• A Photographer's Diary
• Photography as a means of Duplication
• Pioneer Shivaram Karanth
• Prehistoric Shelter Painting
• Prof. A. N. Moorthy Rao
• Prof. V. Seetaramaiah
• Prototype of a Incomplete Project
• The S.S.C Class of 1952
• Saree Art
• Stacked up Diaries of Kamat
• A Student for Life
• Tattoos of the Baiga Tribe
• Ti. Nam. Shreekantaiya at Kumta
• Tour of India in Photo-Stubs
• Traditional Kashmiri Hukka
• Tribal World of K. L. Kamat
• Types of Combs
• An Unfinished Geometric Sketch
• Young and Goofy
• Zoology Department of Karnatak College

See Also:

• Kamat Family Album

• Frequently Asked Questions about Kamat's Potpourri