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
Benoy K Behl This film takes us to lesser-known, early surviving temples of Himachal Pradesh. It also gives a perspective to the art of Himachal and shows the deep relationship with that of Kashmir. Himachal Pradesh was known as a Dev Bhumi, or the land where deities reside. In the hills of Himachal many early […]Read More
Team L&M On the occasion of International Archives Day (June 9) the National Archives of India is holding an exhibition titled Hamari Bhasha, Hamari Virasat at its premises. The exhibition is being held under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM). The exhibition presents a selection of original manuscripts drawn from the annals of the archival repository […]Read More
Benoy K Behl One of the greatest achievements of the Nayaka period in Tamil Nadu is the making of the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai. It was made in the reign of Tirumalai Nayaka in the mid 17th century and is one of the largest temples ever to be made. The great Meenakshi temple is like […]Read More
So, ABC…kithhe gayi si? This was a ditty we heard as children growing up in Punj land (that’s most of Delhi and above! till Kashmir. As a language and culture, it dominates). A for Arangetram too. That’s very Madrasi or South Indian. Having had this for mother’s tongue literally (Tamil), we were also exposed to […]Read More
Team L&M The stolen sculpture of Lord Hanuman belonging to Chola Period has been retrieved from Australia and handed over to the Idol Wing, Tamil Nadu. The sculpture of Lord Hanuman was stolen from a Vishnu Temple, Shri Varatharaja Perumal, Pottaveli Vellur, Ariyalur district. It belongs to late Chola Period (14th -15th century) and was […]Read More
Team L&M The Ministry of Textiles has come up with an E-Commerce portal, indiahandmade.com, for handicrafts and handloom sector. The portal, launched by Union Minister of Textiles, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, offers products from more than 35 lakh handloom weavers and 27 lakh handicraft artisans directly to […]Read More
Summer is here! You can see in wilting flower beds, the paper-like poppy petals slowly falling off and insects being out in full force! Makhi, Machchar, maha-ugly cockroaches in Hindi called Tilchitta. Did you know that? As kids growing up in the Capital city in the 1960s, we were taken by our parents to almost […]Read More
Benoy K Behl The Vajra or Thunderbolt symbolises the Buddhist philosophy which was developed at the universities of Nalanda, Vikramshila and Odantpuri. It was believed that the logic of this philosophy was as striking as a thunderbolt and as indestructible as a diamond. After Eastern India, the Buddhist centres of Kashmir and the North-East played an […]Read More
It is considered impolite to begin a sentence with I, me, myself and thereby hangs a tale. The tale of two cities, two cultures. India and Bharat. Modern and ancient. Yesterday and today. I, me, myself is a new malaise effecting us Indians. A new virus. Another virus is calling anyone up anytime just because […]Read More
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