Art and Culture of India and Sanatana Dharma
The event is supported by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, along with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture of the Russian Federation, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in India, and Sangeet Natak Akademi under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
INSV Kaundinya is no ordinary naval vessel. She is a traditionally constructed stitched ship, built entirely using ancient Indian methods. Instead of modern welding and metal fastenings, wooden planks have been hand-stitched together using coir rope and sealed with natural resins — a technique once used by Indian shipwrights who sailed confidently across vast oceans centuries ago.
In the past two years, Government has facilitated two significant expositions of the Holy Relics
He said if people use local goods for the next 25 years, then the country will not have to face the issue of unemployment.
A city council in the Scottish city of Glasgow has voted to repatriate seven historic artefacts stolen from India, in what has been dubbed the largest single repatriation of items ever from Scotland and the first repatriation of antiquities to India from any UK museum service.
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on Sunday, February 6, 2022. The veteran singer, popularly known as the Melody Queen, was 92. She had been admitted to hospital on 8 January after having tested positive for COVID-19.
Earlier, the High Commission of India in London said that it is happy to announce the recovery and repatriation of a very special 10th century stone idol that had been illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh in sometimes the 1980s.
In an important announcement, the Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has inscribed ‘Durga Puja in Kolkata’ on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during its 16th session being held at Paris, France from 13th to 18th December 2021. The Committee commended Durga Puja for its initiatives to involve marginalized groups, and individuals as well as women in their participation in safeguarding the element.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi on Monday. He prayed at the Kaal Bhairav Temple and Kashi Vishvanath Dham in Kashi. He also took a holy dip in river Ganga.
Shri C V Raju, a grassroots innovator from Etikoppaka village, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, is preserving the traditional method of making Etikoppaka toys, a proud heritage rooted in his village, by making vegetative dyes and developing technologies for increasing the shelf life of the dyes.
