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The outline of the forest as seen from the Brahmaputra river as one approaches it

The man who built a forest: Jadav Payeng

Prabalika M. Borah

Jadav Payeng, known as ‘The Forest Man of India’, takes us through his journey of grit that saw a desert turning into a forest. His story has inspired a trilingual film starring Rana Daggubati

The team of Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad

Event History & Culture

Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad turns 40

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

Kashmir’s Bollywood connections proved a right mix to make people reconnect with the past.

Returning the spotlight to Srinagar’s built heritage

Peerzada Ashiq Inspired by Bollywood classics, architect Zoya Khan’s ‘Houses of Kashmir’ project catalogues historic bazaars and houses.

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Along with the gods

Chitra Deepa Anantharam After eight months, DakshinaChitra reopens, welcoming visitors back into its open air museum spaces with a seminar on thaer wooden chariots

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The sari saga

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A theatre school for those interested in exploring a career in arts

Forest man History & Culture

The man who built a forest: Jadav Payeng

Event History & Culture

Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad turns 40

Returning the spotlight to Srinagar’s built heritage

Watch | Who is Maryam Nawaz?

A video explainer on the journey of Pakistani politician and Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz

No place for artistes in Delhi

Twenty-seven art exponents have been asked to vacate their homes

Along with the gods

After eight months, DakshinaChitra reopens, welcoming visitors back into its open air museum spaces with a seminar on thaer wooden chariots

At Majuli, the masks come out on raas jatra

Raas Utsav, a two-day festival in Assam featuring plays in which actors sport masks made of natural materials, will be held with precautionary measures this year

Watch | Paris' rooftop cellist

A video on Camille Thomas who has taken to playing her cello on Parisian roofs during France's COVID-19 lockdown

How a T-shirt commemorates a landmark battle

Delhi-based experience design company, Motherland, is using a T-shirt as a medium of storytelling, to tell people about 6 Kumaon battalion’s contribution to the Battle of Walong

More colour to the ancient art of Kalampattu

Adding ragas to the chanting has lent an extra vibrancy to this ritualistic art

Saving the precious geo-heritage sites of Visakhapatnam

Experts call for protection of geological sites such as Erra Matti Dibbalu that can drive tourism through Nature trails and guided tours

Local historians who put together cohesive histories of India’s cities

Meet some of India’s favourite local, self-spurred historians who bridge the gap between dry history books, and the intriguing lore of our cities’ pasts

3,000-year-old fortress unearthed in Golan Heights

Barak Tzin, who directed its excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority, estimated that it covered more than 1,000 square metres.

U.K. in India network launches campaign on gender equality

We hope that we will all hold ourselves to the pledge we signed, says Acting British High Commissioner to India.

With the stroke of a pen…

Offended sentiments versus human lives — what takes precedence?

A gift in time, saves many artists

This Deepavali, support artisans by gifting your loved ones hampers handmade with hope to overcome a pandemic-led economic crisis

Shutterbugs from across the world share images of their varied encounters in an online show

Images of Encounter, a photography show, rallies lensmen from across the globe to share their unusual encounters

Benoy K Behl’s photograph of an Ajanta mural preserved in the Arctic World Archive

Art historian Benoy K Behl’s 1992 photograph of a painting in the Ajanta Caves has been preserved in the Arctic World Archive

Watch | The world's first parachute jump

A video explainer on the tale of the first ever parachute jump carried out by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in 1797

Sunday Quiz | All about Karnataka

Only on November 1, 1973, was the State called Karnataka.

Heritage, alone no more: India’s museums adapt to the virtual zeitgeist

As more museums make the choice to make a living online, we take a look at how sustainable this can be

Tracing 19th Century Chinese connections in South India

A documentary shot across India, Hong Kong and Malaysia by an IIT-Madras professor, traces the Chinese connections of South India specific to the mid-19th Century

Breathing life into Sanghakkali

A young and enthusiastic team is trying to save the rare art form from extinction

“Miya Museum” proposal stirs debate in Assam

A committee comprising BJP legislators had approved the idea that Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma rejected.

Evidence of dairy production in the Indus Valley Civilisation

Traces indicate that milk may have been boiled before consumption

Indian Memory Project: Time travel through the history of a nation

During this pandemic, when old albums are being dusted off to rediscover the people in them, the Indian Memory Project, a visual-narrative online archive turns 10. Curator Anusha Yadav on how these sepia-tone pictures are tiny integers in the story of the subcontinent

Meet the family that gives shape to Chennai’s Durga idols

Despite multiple challenges, idol maker Kishori Mohan Pal and his sons are in Chennai in time for Durga Puja, continuing a tradition that began 38 years ago

Telangana temple wall narrates tale of a millenia-old Swayamvaram

Sculptural panel of the ‘Swayamvaram’ scene of a Kalyani Chalukya prince discovered

Check out these eco-friendly corn dolls

These eco-friendly corn husk dolls, made by a Delhi student, could be an innovative addition to golu

Watch | Thanjavur Art Plates: A vintage artefact from the temple city of Tamil Nadu

A video on Thanjavur Kalai Thattu or Thanjavur Art Plate, an artefact, once prized as the pinnacle of artistry in Tamil Nadu

Rains in Telangana claim first heritage structure

Qila Shahpur, belonging to Saravi Paprayudu, collapses.

Empowered woman was the focus of Sobha Naidu’s ballets

Kuchipudi veteran Sobha Naidu who passed away on October 14, influenced a generation of dancers to take up Kuchipudi and trained them into consummate artistes

Thanjavur Art Plates: A vintage mix of multiple skills

The makers of the Thanjavur Art Plate, with its roots in a craft that dates back to the Marathas of the 1800s, are banding together for its cultural and commercial rejuvenation

A house of history in Thoothukudi

At 46, Thaika Street, in seaside Kayalpattinam in Thoothukudi district, stands an ancestral home that now drives change in the town by showcasing local talent and craft

The man who changed the course of the Periyar

Mullaperiyar dam, constructed by John Pennycuik, turns 125 today

The lone piper of Kizhoot

Kizhoot Nandanan, awarded the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi award, talks of how the journey began

German Ambassador and Indian musicians commemorate 30 years of the Wall coming down

Exactly 30 years ago, on October 3, 1990, after the wall between the East and West had been brought down by the people of the land in November the

Magazine | Revisiting the villages along Gandhi's Dandi Yatra

An extract from ‘23 Grams of Salt: Retracing Gandhi’s March to Dandi’ by Anuj Ambalal and Rijuta Mehta

Artefacts unearthed in Pattanam indicate interactions with Greco-Roman world

The remains point to an urban culture and maritime trade that flourished in early historic period.

Watch | The last of Delhi's calligraphy brigade

A video on the once vibrant katib community of Old Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar

Vignettes from the Valley: Documenting Kashmir through personal narratives

A lot has been lost in Kashmir through the years, and a lot demands to stay remembered. Kashmir Photo Collective puts private images in the public sphere, in hopes of achieving that end

Sunil P. Elayidom on what makes the ‘Mahabharata’ so compellingly modern

We should not allow the ancient epic to be hijacked by Hindutva, says the Malayalam scholar

Koodiyattam meastro P.K.G. Nambiar scripts a new play

The new one-act play, ‘Chyavana Sukanyangam’ is based on Mahabhagavatam

Sudharma — World’s only Sanskrit newspaper completes five decades

Mysuru-based Sudharma, the world’s only Sanskrit daily, celebrates its golden jubilee

‘People of India’, a photo book project

A photo book project attempts to visually document the varied people of India, and is reaching out to the public for help

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