Author: The Editor

Many wonderful stories exist about the origin of the Bhagavata Mela Natakam of Andhra Pradesh. In the 14th century, the southern parts of India were ruled by a succession of dynasties committed to the propagation of art and...

North Eastern India (erstwhile greater Assam) remained peripheral in the horizon of Sanskritization that brought in social and cultural changes within the broad outline of the Indian civilization. The civilizational interface in...

The patuas of Medinipur have for many generations painted scrolls designed to be unrolled while the story accompanying the pictures is sung. The patas are sheets of paper of equal or different sizes sewn together and painted....

Folk art is an indivisible part of folk culture. The study of folk culture in the subcontinents of India dates back to the 19th century. Some eminent personalities or connoisseurs began to study folk culture absolutely to quench...

“Cambodia’s ‘Magic’ Oxen Predict Bumper Harvest.” This caption hit many a world media on 30 April 2002. It refers to the first ploughing (Raek Nakwan) ceremony and forecasting of harvest and rains, held at the...

The Pahari School of painting originated in the Hill kingdoms of Himachal Pradesh, a mountainous region of North India, during the 17th-19th century. The most notable schools of art categorized as Pahari include Basohli, Mankot,...

Mathas in Puri are storehouses of archaeological remains. These representations can be broadly divided into two categories such as (i) images of enshrined deities and deified preceptors and (ii) decorative motifs on matha...

The devotional artworks produced by the Kangra School is one of the finest gifts of India to the art world. Named for the region of its origination, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, being the former princely state who patronized the...

Thousands of tourists visit the famed Sun temple at Konark in Orissa and go back impressed with the grandeur and craftsmanship of earlier days. But very few seem to know that another Sun temple exists at Buguda in Ganjam...

One of the earliest iconographic descriptions of Lord Brahma is found in Brhatsamhita, in which he has been described as a four-faced god holding a ritual water-vessel kamandalu in one of his hands (Brahma...