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The Kanjeevaram legacy

Chitra Deepa Anantharam

Award winning artisan weaver, B Krishnamoorthy, is creating a repository with samples of all the designs, patterns and motifs traditional to Kanjeevaram silk sari weaving, preserving fine pieces for posterity

An aerial view of the majestic Town Hall, a heritage structure which is being renovated under the Smart City project, in Visakhapatnam.

Iconic Town Hall and Old Municipal Building to open to public soon

Nivedita Ganguly

Maria Christopher Byrski.

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A diplomat’s love of drama

G.S. Paul Maria Christopher Byrski, Sanskrit scholar and former Polish ambassador to India, continues his love for Koodiyattam and ancient Indian theatre

gaming Heritage Race, melding VR with history

Priyadarshini Paitandy A team from Salem has created a Virtual Reality game that lets users cycle around monuments, from their homes

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The newly-issued stamps for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth

Baby Dalai Lama sitting on his mother’s lap, with his father, Choekyong Tsering. The 14th Dalai Lama, born as Tenzin Gyatso, is the highest spiritual leader of Tibet. On being exiled from Tibet, he lives in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.

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Discarded sinks find new life as Jaipur Blue Pottery

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How Vechoor Thankamani revived Thullal

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These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth

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The Kanjeevaram legacy

Iconic Town Hall and Old Municipal Building to open to public soon

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A diplomat’s love of drama

Heritage Race, melding VR with history

A team from Salem has created a Virtual Reality game that lets users cycle around monuments, from their homes

How Hindi helped to build a bridge to Manipuri language and culture

As early as in 1928, Manipur witnessed a movement to propagate Hindi that further strengthened its links with mainland India

Indian cave paintings go digital

Ancient Indian cave paintings are now being preserved as digitally restored images in Norway’s Arctic World Archive

Kattilmadam, the Chola-era temple lies neglected

Kattilmadam temple, the only shrine in Kerala built in the early Chola architectural style, lies in a state of disrepair

Earliest prints of ‘Young India’ and ‘The Discovery of India’ among the historic titles on auction

Prinseps’ ‘Nationalism Book Auction 2021’ features books on India’s freedom struggle, printed from the 1920s to the 1960s

Dalai Lama: A portrait in pictures

Here are some rare pictures of the spiritual leader as he turns 84 years on July 6, 2021.

In Hyderabad, rocks that resemble an elephant and a one-eyed gentleman

A virtual photography exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of Society to Save Rocks presents a ringside view of the rocks of Telangana and the Deccan

The dancer frozen in bronze

Archaeologist Sharada Srinivasan has traced the history of metallurgy in India from prehistoric to modern times

Dissent introduces ideas of change, says Romila Thapar

Highlighting the role of women in protests, historian calls for additional ways of debating solutions to problems

Pandemic washes away the usual vibrancy of Moolam Boat Race

The 400-year-old Moolam Boat Race, which marks Kerala’s boat racing season, is reduced to a few customary rituals in 2021 owing to the Coronavirus pandemic

Rare pictures from the Thanjavur Saraswati Mahal Library now in a book

Pratap Sinh Bhosle of the erstwhile royal family of Tanjore unearths uncommon pictures from the archives of the library for ‘Rare Prints’

Who is Yevgeny Khaldei, the man behind the iconic ‘Banner of Victory over the Reichstag’ photograph?

It has been 80 years since Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The day, remembered as the Day of Memory and Sorrow, will be marked in Chennai with an exhibition of photographs by celebrated Russian war photographer, Yevgeny Khaldei

Sparky captured something that still resonates today, says Jean Schulz

Ahead of the release of ‘Who Are You, Charlie Brown?’, Jean Schulz reminisces about the lasting legacy of ‘Peanuts’ left behind by her late husband Charles M Schulz and why the world he created is still relevant today

Unique literature kit ‘Telugu Sahitimoorthulu’ introduces Telugu authors to the next generation

Compiled by Shanmukha Sunnapuralla, this specialised kit ‘Telugu Sahitimoorthulu — Mukhachitraalu Repati Tharam Kosam’ has biographies of 111 Telugu writers and poets

Tamil series from Singapore dwell on identity issues

Naam and Parambarai have become popular among Tamil viewers worldwide.

Ideas of sustainability from India at the London Design Biennale, 2021

Nisha Mathew Ghosh, curator of the India Pavilion at the London Design Biennale, 202 talks of the showcase and the challenges her team faced to set it up

‘Aaghosham’, an online festival celebrating the spirit of Kerala

The themes for the ongoing festival include history, social structure, music, dance, food, festivals and architecture among others that bring out the lesser-known facets of the State

The Mummy returns: Egypt is looking to the past to rebuild its national identity

Despite being an important voice in the Arab world, Egypt has not always had an easy relationship with its people

A visual story of Gussadi, a tradition in Adilabad

Hyderabad-based Jennifer Alphonse documents the Dandari-Gussadi tribal tradition through a documentary and book

Mundeshvari temple: History in every stone

Mundeshvari temple in Bihar is considered by many to be the oldest functional temple in India

Meet the designer helping artisans get vaccinated

Sonica Sarna, a designer based in Delhi, is helping hundreds of weavers, printers, and dyers who form a part of the fashion supply chain, register for COVID-19 vaccinations

How the Pasteur Institute of India became one of the pioneers in vaccine production

With the focus now on vaccination, a look at the history and work of the Coonoor-based institute

Indian English is a Prakrit, not a creole, says linguist Peggy Mohan

Her new book speaks of how Indian languages evolved via generations of migratory patterns

Countdown begins to discover where Columbus came from

Scientists hope to identify his geographic origin by examining his DNA.

What does it mean to be a gay doctor in India?

Dr Sahil Kumar Nautiyal says that being gay and a doctor are both important parts of his identity, along with many other facets

How the Cold War in Germany played a small yet significant part in establishing IIT Madras

A recently-published research paper unearths an oft-forgotten chapter in the establishment of IIT-Madras and its connection with the Cold War in Germany, which resulted in the formation of the now-revered institution

Rare sculptures of Rani Rudrama Devi unearthed in Khammam village

Temple was built during the reign of the Kakatiya queen

Camel Library Project brings cheer to children in remote Balochistan

In this arid Pakistan province, Roshan the camel brings the world to children missing school due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Esther David collaborates with Indian Jewish communities to record recipes for ‘Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews’

Author Esther David travels across India, collaborating with Jewish communities to learn how to cook traditional, closely guarded recipes for her new book, ‘Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews’

Young royals open up their palaces

With installations in iconic properties and a focus on circular fashion in India, the second edition of Karkhana Chronicles has its heart in the right place

Kudukka Vina — Back from the brink

Rajendar Marar’s efforts have given a new lease of life to the single-stringed Kudukka Vina

Reviving memories of Cochin State Forest Tramway in Parambikulam Tiger Reserve

A short film clip shows the Cochin State Forest Tramway in Parambikulam Tiger Reserve making its way through the Western Ghat forest with lumber. Considered an engineering marvel, it connected Chalakudy and Chinnar

A ventilator for the Landour Community Hospital

How the people of Landour with the help of friends raised money for medical equipment at the Landour Community Hospital — all in a day

Partition Museum and other centres will hopefully outlast the events of today, says Lady Kishwar Desai

As the iconic Partition Museum, Amritsar, wins ‘Best Wider World Tourism Project’, Lady Kishwar Desai speaks on the future of history tourism amid the pandemic

A campaign to save Visakhapatnam’s 2000-year-old Buddhist site of Thotlakonda

Historians and biologists campaign to protect the ancient Buddhist site of Thotlakonda in Visakhapatnam, which is home to an estimated 90 species of birds

How Assam’s illustrators are framing the festive cheer of Bihu

Bihu can be cute too! Using nostalgia as their guide, illustrators in Assam recreate Bihu customs to strike a happy chord

Meet the Chennai girl who is now a priest in a village in Wales

Shirley Murphy grew up in Chennai but now lives and works in Wales as a priest

What’s unique about Kumbakonam Ramaswamy temple?

Built in Kumbakonam in honour of the 12-year-old Vijayanagar king, Srirama Raya, it depicts Hanuman reciting the Ramayana

Gautam Sen’s latest book is on India’s historic fascination with automobiles

In ‘The Automobile’, author Gautam Sen chronicles the history of motor cars in India and how a passion for cars fuelled the industry even before Independence

The past is present at Madurai Nadaga Samgam

The oldest and the most active TN Nadaga Nadigar Sangam holds sway in Madurai

Ugadi, Puthandu, Bihu, Vaisakhi: How India ushers in a new year

Amid COVID-19 second wave, subdued but spirited celebrations usher in the new year, whether it is Ugadi, Navreh, Bihu, Vishu or Vaisakhi

Story of a heritage house, illustrious occupants

The ‘House of Baruas’ in Guwahati will turn 100 in 2022

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