In metro India, where is leisure time – of a nice walkthrough park – acres of well-kept greenery and elegant buildings? In the heart of Delhi, there’s the Lodhi Garden then there’s the Sundar Nursery. Bangalore has Cubbon Park and Lalbagh; Bombay has Hanging Gardens and Borivali National Park; Chennai, the beach and Kolkata, the […]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
Team L&M On the occasion of World Heritage Day (April 18), a compilation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speeches and thoughts on culture, titled Sanskriti ka Panchva Adhyay, was released at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA). The book was released by Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Pujya Swami Avdheshanand Giri Ji Maharaj, the head […]Read More
As Holi approaches, the colours of India come to play. Before that, by Basant Panchami there’s Spring in the air, anyway. Then there was the Mahakumbh where 50 crore Indians mostly, brought colours to the sangam of three rivers – Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati – from all over the world. Then colours are brought individually, […]Read More
What better time than today to recount this immortal poem by poet Iqbal …Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara. Hindustan is a concept; Hinduism, a philosophy. India is an amalgamation of many states, regions, kingdoms put together that held by a common belief. After the Indus age, the pre and post-Vedic ages (see chart for […]Read More
Team L&M The Conservation and Archives Division of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) hosted an exhibition titled People and Places of India – A Retrospect in celebration of International Labour Day, May 1. The exhibit features lithographs by Karl Erich Muller from the IGNCA Archives. Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary of […]Read More
Raja is not a word, it is a state of being. Raja aadmi means dil se raja – large hearted. Not merely royalty. Merely? Them royals might kill me and the story of Seraikella killings come to mind. Seraikella Chhau on cover of Surya mag (March 1977) of Maneka Gandhi Seraikella is a small principality which […]Read More
Team L&M Looking for Challan, a film produced by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and directed by Bappa Ray, clinched the coveted National Award for the Best Investigative Film category. Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary of IGNCA, along with Bappa Ray, received the prestigious accolade from President Droupadi Murmu at an […]Read More
In last column, I had focused on symbols in Indian culture. What is India’s one symbol that is pan Indian. It is Nataraja now. No wonder when the mandarins of ministry of culture thought what to put in front of spaceship called Bharat Mandapam they first thought of some sculpture. Then the idea of pancha […]Read More
Team L&M The fourth Nadi Utsav being organized by the National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM) of IGNCA and the Janapada Sampada Division, began today on the banks of Yamuna in Delhi. The three-day festival includes a variety of events, including scholarly discussions with environmentalists and scholars on various subjects, screening of films, presentations by […]Read More
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