Team L&M Development Commissioner (Handlooms) launched the “Handloom Hackathon 2025,” yesterday. It is a pioneering national competition set to revolutionise India’s handloom sector. Organised in collaboration with the National Design Centre and Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi, the hackathon will be one of the key highlights of this year’s National Handloom Day […]Read More
Benoy K Behl The Vijayanagara Empire emerged in the mid-14th century and soon encompassed most of South India, from coast to coast. By the mid-15th century, the kingdom stretched from North Karnataka to Kerala and from the Malabar Coast to Orissa. At Hampi, on the banks of the Tungabhadra river, was made the imperial capital […]Read More
Damaru har har baje goes the popular Shiva stuti. Summer is here but drummers are quiet! And everyone in most of the hot and happening North India or South, East or West wish they were in cooler climes. Only one metro – Bangalore is 25 degrees in June! – read my lips T.W.E.N.T.Y F.I.V.E! Landing […]Read More
India that is Bharat is so rich and diverse in its arts and crafts, that all of Europe and America put together may not have such diversity of forms, richness of tribal, folk, ritual content and continuity, historically. This is no sweeping statement but borne out of research. Google now helps even the uneducated to […]Read More
Team L&M The 16th – century stepwell, Rajon ki Baoli, located in Mehrauli Archaeological Park, New Delhi is now open to the public. Working towards protecting India’s cultural and environmental heritage, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund India (WMFI) and the TCS Foundation, has now successfully completed its […]Read More
Benoy K Behl King Vishnuvardhana defeated the imperial Cholas in 1116. This was a landmark in the establishment of his dynasty the Hoysalas. To commemorate his victory, he built the Temple of Keshava or Chennakeshava at Belur, in present-day Karnataka. He named it the Vijayanarayana or the Victorious Vishnu. The temple is a classic example […]Read More
Team L&M In a significant stride toward preserving India’s rich legacy in traditional medicine, the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), under the Ministry of Ayush, has revived two rare and significant Ayurvedic manuscripts—Dravyaratnākara Nighaṇṭu and Dravyanamākara Nighaṇṭu. The publications were unveiled during an event organised by the RRAP Central Ayurveda Research Institute […]Read More
Benoy K Behl At Khajuraho, between the 10th and 12th centuries, was created one of the most splendid temple cities in the history of the world. The temples of Khajuraho form a strikingly homogenous group and were all made within a relatively short period of time. The concerted effort of making so many grand temples […]Read More
Benoy K Behl At the ancient university of Nalanda, there was a spirit of vibrant intellectual thought, a climate of discussion and debate. The many ‘acharyas’, or learned professors, at Nalanda authored hundreds of works on philosophy, metaphysics, psychology, logic, medicine, astrology, arts, literature and other subjects. The study at Nalanda was of life itself and […]Read More
Pune is today among the most cosmo city with real culture. They talk softly, don’t push and break lines like the rest of India. Behave. Rarely cheat or abuse, unless provoked then the Maratha rule and role come to surface! Peshwas DNA is there. Don’t forget this is also the land of Swaraj is my Birthright. […]Read More