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Awarded by UNESCO, This Brilliant Artist Made That Viral Cloth Map of Srinagar
“The map of Srinagar is my humble attempt at highlighting the breathtaking landscape that houses Shikara boats, the finest Mughal architecture, picturesque Chinar trees, handicrafts soaked in...
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Padma Shri Awardee Revives 500-YO Art That Helped Chhatrapati Shivaji Fight...
Vishram Gangavane, part of the Thakar tribe known for the storytelling art of Chitrakathi (‘Chitra’ means painting and ‘katha’ is a story) in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district, was once summoned by...
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Neeraj Chopra to Milkha Singh, Woman Uses Stunning Makeup Skills to Turn into...
The internet is filled with makeup trends — from ‘lifted faces’ and foxy eyes to 3-D nail art. The art of creating an illusion with a few clever tricks is not new, yet it is fascinating to note how the...
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76-YO Preserves 900-YO Legacy With an Artform That Can Last Upto 5 Centuries
For the last 65 years or so, Maga Nayak’s routine has remained unchanged. Every morning, the pothi chitra artist from Odisha’s Nayakapatna village sits on the floor with a Lekhani or metal needle, and...
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This Family Safeguards a 700-YO Artform While Winning National Awards &...
At first it looks like a cramped but colourful board game with stages to cross. Upon zooming in you see flags of different countries that give you the impression of diverse cultures celebrated across...
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Rare Silk Helps Weavers Earn Up to 900% More, Thanks to an Engineer
Born and raised in Bihar’s Banka town, Udyan Singh moved to Delhi in 2006 to complete his studies in civil engineering. He found a stable job with the Indian Railways but later quit to try his hand at...
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Artist Uses Ancient Art Technique on Rocks, Converts Maoist Area Into Tourist...
Once known as a safe haven for Maoists, the Ajodhya hills in West Bengal’s Purulia district has now become a tourist hotspot, all thanks to the efforts of one man — Chitta Dey. Using the ancient art of...
View ArticleBlue Zebras to Purple Strawberries: Journalist Showcases Quirky Art of Mumbai...
When you open the Greater Bombay’s Instagram account, you are greeted with bizarre designs that Rachel Lopez equates to French knots, vintage photo albums, funky animal print, ‘picnics in the sky’ and...
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Engineer Quits Job, Uses Robotics to Save Father’s Legacy of Leather Puppetry
When the administrators of Palakkad District Heritage Museum, also known as Mani Iyer Museum, approached Sajeesh Pulavar to make some dolls, he remembers thinking back to a puppetry automation idea...
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Pics: In Kashmir, Snow Artists Are Turning the Winter Landscape Into Art
As the season’s first snowfall in the valley threw nature lovers into jubilation, the white carpet brought much more cheer to amateurs who showcase their snow art to onlookers. From the popular...
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The Man Who Took Gond Art From Tribal Huts to The World’s Top Museums
An image of Lord Hanuman was drawn with lime and charcoal by hand on the humble red mud walls of a small hut in the remote village, Patangarh, of Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh in 1981. The artist...
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Lata Mangeshkar: 30,000 Songs, Bharat Ratna, & a Fight to Elevate Playback...
Lata Mangeshkar, the ‘Nightingale of Bollywood’ has passed away on the morning of 6 February 2022. The veteran singer was admitted to a Mumbai hospital in early January this year after she tested...
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Artist Uses Lime, Mud & Recycled Items to Create Art Village With Its Own...
When JJ School of Arts alumni Ganga Kadakia could not find a perfect green oasis to unwind, she decided to create one. A globetrotter by nature and an artist by profession, her art has taken her to...
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A Cafe, A Snow Leopard & More: Inside Ladakh’s Unique Ice Sculpture Exhibition
In early 2018, over a span of 25 gruelling days, three Ladakhi artists — Tsering Gurmet Kungyam, Chemet Dorjay, and Stanzin Khangsar — came together to construct a Changchup Chorten (symbolising the...
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Woman Takes 4000-YO Indian Fabric to US, Germany & Beyond, Helps Weavers Earn...
Janhavi Kulkarni was in Class four when she started exploring the world of stitching, like every other kid in her region of Dharwad. More than being an unwritten rule it was the tradition of weaving...
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79-YO Padma Shri Awardee Spent 30 Years Preserving 10000-Year-Old Art
On the premises of a large house surrounded by trees in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, curious visitors queue up inside the Sanskriti Museum that houses old rock paintings that are about 10,000 years old. They...
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What Connects ISRO to Channapatna Toys? A Startup Reviving 65 Indigenous Crafts
For 200 years, artisans in Channapatna town, which borders Bengaluru, have been engaged in the traditional practice of making wooden toys that are both entertaining and educational. The existence of...
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Earning Rs 30/Day to Performing in 2000 Shows, Jeeveshu Ahluwalia’s Stand-up...
“I learnt how to laugh at myself early on in life,” begins stand-up comic Jeeveshu Ahluwalia. From selling biscuits, incense sticks and juice packets door-to-door to earn Rs 30 a day to performing over...
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India in Pics: Engineer Quit his Job to Beautify 48 Railway Stations with...
Five years ago, Nilesh Nagra from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, was disgusted as most passengers are when they see the pathetic state of a railway station in India. From open urinals, paint chipping off the...
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‘My Padma Shri Grandma Taught Me’: How Bihar’s Madhubani Artist took Her Art...
Pushpa Kumari was all of 10 when she made a big life decision to pursue Madhubani — folk art that is passed down from one generation to another by women of the household. Though she had inherited the...
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