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"Here is my song for the asking, ask me and I will play so sweetly, I’ll make you smile.
This is my tune for the taking, Take it, don’t turn away I’ve been waiting all my life"

~ 'Song for the Asking' Simon & Garfunkel

2025

JAN

Bazil Sheikh

Curator, Reserve Bank Monetary Museum- Mumbai

Author-The Paper & the Promise, The Conjuror’s Trick

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Prof Himanshu Prabha Ray & Chandan Ray

Indian Sanskrit scholar & historian

at Asiatic Society Library, Mumbai

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2024

DEC

HSP Asia 2024 candidates visit 

to the Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works

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HSP Asia 2024 candidates visit 

to the Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works

"Commemorative Banknotes" presentation

High Security Printing- HSP Asia, Bangkok

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with the team from De La Rue - 

Brooke Banks, Phillipa Peploe, HSP Asia Exhibition

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Guillaume Lepecq - Chair, Cash Essentials

at HSP Asia Exhibition

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2024

NOV

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2024

OCT

"How costly is it to produce money?"

Original contribution in the Hindu Business Line

Wednesday, 30th October 2024  

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2024

SEPT

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at the "International Cultural Centre", Krakow, Poland

with Dr Michał Wiśniewski, Head- Academy of Heritage

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"Money Talks - Art, Society & Power" Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford with curator Dr Shailendra Bhandare

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Research delegate at the "Security Designers Forum"

Warsaw, Poland - 9th - 11th September 2024 with Gunnar Nehls, Phil Holland, Samantha Burns, Manuela Pfunder

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2024

AUG

"Money as history and nostalgia"

Original contribution in the Hindu Business Line

Saturday, 24th August 2024  

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2023

SEPT

"Banking on World Heritage" part of 'Sharing Traditions'

Roots & Routes  Exhibition, G20 Presidency program

at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi

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2023

JUN

Hon Minister of State for Culture & Ext Affairs - Smt Meenakshi Lekhi and IGNCA Member Secretary - Dr Sachchidanand Joshi 

at "Banking on World Heritage" Exhibition at IGNCA, New Delhi

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2022

NOV

Chander Jeena, Sudhakar Kaza, Ashish Chandra

"World Heritage on banknotes" Conference

at UNESCO, New Delhi

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2022

JUL

Academy of Architecture 

"Banking on Architecture" Elective Course

at Rachana Sansad, Mumbai

2021

JAN

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ANA eLearning Academy  

"Euro Coins - Cutting-edge, Continuous, Cultural 

Contributors" (Online)

2024

APR

"Beyond Face Value" Exhibition on French Banknote designs

at the Traveling exhibition across India at the Alliance Française, New Delhi along with students and Mr S K Misra

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2024 FEB

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"Beyond Face Value" Exhibition on French Banknote designs

Traveling exhibition across India 

at the Alliance Française, Ahmedabad

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2023

DEC

"Banking on Heritage" presentation 

at High Security printing - HSP/Asia, Colombo

Representatives from RBI and BRBNMPL

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Featured in De La Rue's promotional video

at De La Rue Lanka, Biyagama 

Representatives from India visiting De La Rue Lanka

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2023

NOV

"Beyond Face Value" Exhibition on French Banknote designs

Traveling exhibition across India 

at the Alliance Française, Pondicherry

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2019

SEPT

Hans de Heij

Banknote Design Advisor, DNB

at the DNB Headquarters, Amsterdam

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Inge Madle

Banknote Designer, "Madle Designs"

at Cafe American, Amsterdam

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Justine Smith

Banknote Artist

at her studio in Brixton, London

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Steve Gulliford

Design Operations Director

at De La Rue, Basingstoke

2019

AUG

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Debbie Marriot

Design Lead, Bank of England

at the Bank of England Museum, London

Colin Narbeth

IBNS Founder Member # 1

at SPINK, London for his 90th Birthday

2019

APR

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Kaori Sekiguchi

Curator, Currency Museum BoJ 

at Bank of Japan, Tokyo

2019

MAR

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Kishore Jhunjhunwala

author, "Indian Paper Money"

at the Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai

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Prof. Udaya Kumar

Designer, "Indian Rupee Symbol ₹ "

at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai

2005

MAY

Joe Cribb and Jonathan Williams

Editors., "Money - a History"

at the British Museum, London

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2004

DEC

Dr Wendell Crow, Prof. Paul Lester and Dr Shay Sayre

 Committee for Masters Thesis, "Money Talks"

at California State University, Fullerton 

1999

SEPT

Prof. David Aaker

author "Brand Equity"

at University of California, Berkeley

The ideas and arguments on this site are my original research presented and/or published. All scanned images are part of my personal banknote collection. 

The sole purpose of this site is academic and ideas, concepts and images are used without any prejudice © 2018 - 2024  Rukmini Dahanukar @ moneytalks.design 

... because a vision softly is creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain ... still remains ..... 

"Sounds of Silence" : Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel

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