New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) A set of 12 ‘languishing’ crafts, including Akola and Nandana hand block prints, Mashru, Rangkat and Garad Korial silk weave, Rogan paintings and Chamba Rumal art, is the focus of…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Serendipity Arts Foundation on Thursday announced the grantees of their first annual grants for 2019-2020 in six categories of visual and performing arts. For the visual arts research grant,…
Mumbai, Aug 1 (IANS) Noted Japanese contemporary artist, often touted as the Andy Warhol of Japana and known to blur the lines between fine arts and commercial arts, is all set to enter the Indian…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Sahitya Akademi, the national academy of letters, has opened entries for Yuva Puraskar 2020 for publishers and young Indian authors in all 24 languages it recognises. The Akademi is inviting…
Noida, July 31 (IANS) Celebrated author Ruskin Bond on Wednesday released his latest book “Words From My Window — A Journal” amid his young admirers from the Shriram Millennium School here and other prominent schools…
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Wednesday flagged off a mobile library bus service which aims to reach out to readers in Delhi, especially those in slums, resettlement…
Paris, July 31 (IANS) A collection of 75 artefacts from the pre-Columbian Americas, made before European influence on the American continent, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s Paris on October 30. The collection belongs…
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) National Award recipient and renowned artist Karpuri Devi, who helped revive the art of Madhubani paintings, passed away at a hospital in the Madhubani district of Bihar. She was 94….
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Chandeliers, fairy lights and lantern-lamps…we’ve seen them all. But the combination of glass and light has found new wings, as it is getting used in the light…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Swami Vivekananda acted as a tonic for the Hindu mind that was depressed and demoralised, RSS Joint General Secretary Suresh Soni said here on Tuesday while releasing the book ‘Essential…
Bhubaneswar, July 30 (IANS) Odisha’s Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Dibya Shankar Mishra, on Tuesday said the state government will further try to secure Geographical Indication (GI) tags for the state’s well-known…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Four of the walls of Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station, one of Delhi’s busiest stations, are now sporting vibrant paintings of the icons of the national capital, including the Lotus Temple,…
Kolkata, July 30 (IANS) Eminent journalist and political analyst Kanchan Gupta has been nominated Chairman of the Raja Ram Mohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) by the Central government. Soon after his appointment, Gupta, who had…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Hitherto, the thousands of Indians who had migrated to Britain in the wake of the partition of the sub-continent had lived in silence, perhaps wanting to bury…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed the Culture Ministry’s decision to extend visiting hours at 10 prominent Indian monuments, including Delhi’s Humayun’s Tomb and Safdarjung Tomb, till 9 p.m….
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The visiting hours at 10 historical monuments, including Delhi’s Safdarjung Tomb and Humayun’s Tomb, have been extended till 9 p.m, the Culture Ministry has said. An official statement quoted Culture…
New York, July 29 (IANS) Created between the 17th and 19th centuries for the Rajput and Pahari courts of north India, a selection of 30 paintings depicting the Ramayana will go on a year-long exhibition…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Months ago, Bharatanatyam guru Jayalakshmi Eshwar wowed her audience with a dance production that was much more than a regular classical piece. Fused with electronic music and…
By M.R Narayan Swamy Title: Rivers Remember — #ChennaiRains; Author: Krupa Ge; Publisher: Context/Westland Publications; Pages: 218; Price: Rs 499 Writer and editor Krupa Ge spent over three years, from December 2015 to May 2019,…
Brussels, July 28 (IANS) The “EU-China Youth Music & Art Festival 2019” was held in Belgium’s Zandhoven town, with nearly 100 young people and folk artistes from Belgium and China giving performances. Artistes using musical…