Benoy K Behl Nagaland is a hill state located in the far northeastern part of India. About one-sixth of Nagaland is under the cover of tropical and sub-tropical evergreen forests. There are about 16 major tribes in the state of Nagaland. Nagaland is a mountainous state. The Naga Hills rise from the Brahmaputra Valley in […]Read More
Team L&M The Old War Office (OWO) of Britain’s World War II era Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the heart of London will be inaugurated as a luxury hotel on September 26. Multinational conglomerate the Hinduja Group and Raffles Hotels & Resorts have jointly restored the property. “When we came to Whitehall, the team were […]Read More
Team L&M An exhibition of a selected digitised South Asian manuscripts sourced from national and international repositories, Evam Vadati Pustakam, begins tomorrow at IIC, New Delhi. The show traces the journey of texts across languages and to different parts of Asia, and stories of how manuscripts were collected down the ages. The exhibits illustrate what […]Read More
Team L&M To sustain rich cultural legacy that is hidden in over 3696 heritage monuments – under its protection – spread across the country, the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) will be launching “Adopt a Heritage 2.0 Programme” on September 4 at Samvet Auditorium, IGNCA, New Delhi. The scheme, first launched in 2017, invites corporates […]Read More
Gurukul we have heard of. A place where young ones went to learn. Today, a cool guru is the operative word! Seeing young India and them millennials at a Sunday morning function celeb a 75-year-old guru (though she looks 50 – proving once again dance keeps one young, fit and smiling – like this Guru Sucheta Chapekar […]Read More
Pro (professional) and non (non-professional). These are the two types of people who exist in cultural field. Education is a-given. No point even talking about it (Hindi Medium or not. All Indians must see this unique film on our education system. Late Irfan Khan and Samar have acted so well in this film, which is […]Read More
Benoy K Behl Tamil Nadu is on the East coast of Peninsular India. This state has been a great cradle of Indian culture and many ancient traditions of dance, music, architecture and life-style continue and flourish here till today. Temples were made out of hard and lasting granite in Tamil Nadu. There is an amazing continuity […]Read More
Team L&M A 10,000-year-old Trident and a 3,000-year-old Vajra were unveiled today by researcher and businessman Syed Shameer Hussain. As per him, this centuries-old Trident (Trishul) belongs to Lord Shiva, and Vajra is the weapon of Indra, popularly known as the God of Rain and Storms in Hinduism. At a Press Conference early today, Hussain […]Read More
‘Private-public partnership is crucial for promoting & sustaining heritage’
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Belonging to the royal family of Bhavnagar, heritage conservationist Brijeshwari Kumari Gohil, was passionate about anything and everything old be it buildings, art or crafts, or fashion since her childhood. That’s the reason, she moved to UK to pursue education in heritage conservation, when she found there was no scpe to do […]Read More
Today in cultural field, or even in ancillary industries like hotel/ food/ fashion/ weddings the word curator or curated by is often used. The dictionary meaning says: the selection and care of objects to be shown in a museum or to form part of a collection of art, an exhibition, etc or the curation of […]Read More