Though separated apart by distance of over four and half millennia in time and a long length of land, what joins Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan with the mineral rich tribal regions of the eastern Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal is the...
Those of us who walk down memory lane and, possibly, hooked to Indian cinema I would like to take them to the famous scene of the Bollywood classic film Mughal-e-Azam (The Great Mughal) in which, befitting the royalty of Prince Salim and the...
Godawari Dutta, icon of the specialised style of painting, Madhubani, which is bestowed with the Geographical Identification (GI) status, passed away recently on August 14 at the age of 93, leaving behind a strong legacy of art she loved, nurtured...
As I came out to the balcony of my sixth-floor house that early morning last month to tend to the potted plants, I saw tree-tops inflamed with red bright bursts all around. As a pleasant breeze was blowing and it was cloudy, the canopies of red...
Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, who is immortalised in the 20th century remarkable archaeological find of her painted bust that now adorns the Cairo Museum as a world-renowned ancient work of art, is often compared for her beauty to Leonardo da Vinci’s...
