December 3, 2024

Heritage

News, articles and Essays on Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism and Indian way of life.

Governance Heritage

More than 2.8 Lakh Artefacts of Ten Government Museums and Galleries Under Ministry of Culture Available for Online Access |museumsofindia.gov.in

The Ministry of Culture has taken up the task of digitisation of collections of ten (10) museums under its domain through Jatan programme since April 2014, even before the onset of Covid-19. Besides this, the Ministry also operates a scheme namely ‘Museum Grant Scheme’ under which financial assistance is provided to State Governments, Societies, Autonomous Bodies, Local Bodies and Trusts registered under the Societies Act for digitisation of art objects in the museums across the country for making their images/catalogue available over the website for online access.

By Kautilya / July 23, 2021
Art and Culture Governance Heritage Temples and Places

Government to Set Up A World-Class ‘Indian Institute of Heritage’ at Noida to focus on Conservation and Research in India’s Rich Tangible Heritage

The government has decided to set up the ‘Indian Institute of Heritage’ at Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar. This will impact higher education and research in the field related to rich Indian heritage and its conservation leading to Masters and Ph.D courses in History of Arts, Conservation, Museology, Archival Studies, Archaeology, Preventive Conservation, Epigraphy and Numismatics, Manuscriptology etc. as well as conservation training facilities to in-service employees and the students of the Indian Institute of Heritage.

By Kautilya / July 22, 2021
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Researchers Devise Digital Method to Process Sanskrit Texts

Researchers led by Dr Pawan Goyal have developed a digital infrastructure for the efficient processing of Sanskrit texts, by effectively combining state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and traditional linguistic knowledge from Sanskrit. The proposed framework is based on Energy-based models and it enables the encoding of relevant linguistic information as constraints.

By Kautilya / March 30, 2021
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India Digs to Find When Continents Split

Fresh excavations have begun at Mandro Fossil Park in Jharkhand to try and find answers to exactly when Australia and Antarctica split from India — with the help of plant fossils. Nearly 50 fossils have been dug up between March 9 and 13 as part of the study, led by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in Lucknow with the Jharkhand forest department.

By Kautilya / March 24, 2021