Searched for
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY
A lonely footballer breathes life into clayAmidst global divisions, cross-cultural artistic collaborations offer hope. 'A Doll Made Up of Clay,' a short film by Ethiopian SRFTI stude...- Source of lifeIn Hindu cosmology, endless cycles of creation and dissolution occur, with a period of pralay likened to a black hole ending all life on ea...
- Triguna TrimurtiDattatreya, the three-headed deity, embodies Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh, representing creation, preservation, and destruction. He is the lo...
- Modi to witness Laos style Ramayana performance on ASEAN Summit sidelinesPM Narendra Modi's visit to Laos for the ASEAN Summit includes witnessing Pha Lak Pha Lam, a Lao adaptation of the Ramayana. This performan...
- Dev Patel gets emotional as 'Monkey Man' receives standing ovation at SXSW festivalThe movie was introduced to the audience by filmmaker Jordan Peele, who serves as a producer of the project.
- View: 'Shiv Shakti Point' sounds cosmic, cosmological, & cosmopolitan. So chillWhich brings me to squawks I've been hearing since Vikram's landing site on the moon was named Shiv Shakti Point. I think it's a lovely, ap...
- So, here's how we saw our rulers, see them, and will see themMuch before the advent of photographs, selfies and now AI avatars, portraiture of the kings and emperors had their own aesthetic – and poli...
- A money manager like no other, Kubera, the lord of wealthcareIt’s Dhanteras today. It won’t be just Lakshmi who gets special treatment – master epicurean and king of good times Dhanapati shall get our...
- The gendered geographies of mother, lover, consort, goddessToday, we may be gender-sensitised to politically correct rhetoric. But in literature and art, Earth, nation, region and territorial contro...
- Qutub Minar at centre of Gyanvapi-like row; Culture minister denies passing excavation orderFor some time, the Qutub Minar in Delhi was in sights of some sections, who named it Vishnu Stambh, on the lines of Tejo Mahalaya for the i...
- Benefits of an extra limb: So that things don’t get out of handHaving a few extra limbs would be welcome in today’s multitasking world.
- Truly Punjabi: Cuisine relies more on freshness, quality of ingredients than masalas & complicated recipesKulchas are to Amritsar what croissants are to Paris. Every hole-in-the-wall eatery has its own version.
- View: The Ayodhya verdict revealed, once again, that courts are often courts of law, not courts of justiceThe long-awaited decision of the apex court has created a few anxieties. Justice A K Ganguly, former Supreme Court judge, publicly stated t...
- ET View: Junk the Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Draft OrdinanceIndia's higher education has been on shaky ground for some time now.
- Gujarat polls 2017: First phase of campaign covers more national issues than that of stateModi underlined the development works done during the BJP regime in contrast to the earlier regimes and reached out to the voters as “Naren...
- BJP makes annual celebration of Ambedkar's birth anniversary mandatory for all its unitsAmbedkar will share the pride of place in the BJP’s iconography with Hindu nationalists SP Mookerjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya.
- Beyond Nehru-Gandhis: UGC to name research centres after ‘unsung’ heroes like S Radhakrishnan and othersThe government, however, has no plans to rename centres and institutes that currently carry the name of members of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
- MF Husain's final nine paintings on public display at London's Victoria & Albert MuseumBorn in Pandharpur, his early years were spent in Indore. Husain began his career as a painter of cinema hoardings after attending art scho...
- Icons & idols: Dashavatara temple at DeogarhDashavatara temple at nearby Deogarh and the huge standing Varaha statue in Udaygiri caves in MP are two cases in point.
- Rock-cut Narasimha at DudhaiOne may be awestruck by the magnificent 30 ft high rock-cut Narasimha at Dudhai in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, an interesting visua...
Load More
