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Apply for Seva Bhoj Yojana

October 25, 2024
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"""Seva Bhoj Yojna"" is a Central Sector Scheme initiated by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Its aim is to alleviate the financial burden on charitable religious institutions that offer free Food/Prasad/Langar (Community Kitchen)/Bhandara to the public/devotees without discrimination, by reimbursing the Central Government’s share of Central Goods and

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Filmmakers Vikramaditya Motwane and Dibakar Banerjee are Playing a Tricky Game of Hide-And-Seek with Their Messages

October 25, 2024
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A subtle film is also a misunderstood film. While speaking to the director Vikramaditya Motwane at a Q&A session after a screening of Indi(r)a’s Emergency—his documentary on Indira Gandhi and the clamping of both freedom and sperm ducts under her and her son Sanjay Gandhi’s forceful thumb between 1975 and

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“Must See” Indian Heritage

October 25, 2024
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SQLSTATE[HY000] [2003] Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘10.247.27.135’ (113) “Must See” Indian Heritage “Must See” Indian Heritage Archaeological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture has created the online portal for Indian Heritage Sites/Monuments “MUST SEE” List that features outstanding Indian Monuments and Archaeological Sites, under the protection of the

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Baba, Bollywood, Bishnoi and Brand Mumbai: How a Politician’s Murder Shook Mumbai’s Power Corridors

October 25, 2024
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In this photograph taken in July 2013, then Congress leader Baba Siddique is flanked by actors Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan at an Iftar party in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI This story has all the elements of a crime thriller. Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique (66) was killed

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DARPAN

October 25, 2024
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“ DARPAN, a Dashboard for Analytical Review of Projects Across Nation, transform complex government data into compelling visuals. It gives the administration a tool, which is needed to deliver real-time, dynamic project monitoring without coding or programming through web services. It enhance the analytical capabilities through data collection by consolidating

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Book Review of 2024 JCB Prize Longlist The Distaste of the Earth

October 25, 2024
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Exotic Landscape (1910), oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau. | Photo Credit: Wiki Commons  Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s enigmatically titled new book, The Distaste of the Earth, retells a Khasi folktale of star-crossed love. Similar to Funeral Nights (Context, 2021), which offered a documentation of the Khasi people’s traditional stories and cultural practices tied around

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Museums of India National Portal and Digital Repository

October 25, 2024
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Museums are a repository of a nation’s culture as they contain explicit examples of the proof of the development of a country’s culture and heritage over a period of time. The strengthening of the country’s museums is thereby an important activity covered under the ambit of the Ministry of Culture.

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The restless traveller: A vignette | A Bengali Story in Translation

October 25, 2024
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He was walking through an impassable thorny way. At one stage he turned back and saw millions of steadfast gazes fixed upon him. An incandescent lustre of seething excitement and expectation radiated from those gazes. It filled the traveller’s heart with an intoxicating pride. With a smile of profound satisfaction,

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Join with National Culture Fund

October 25, 2024
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National Culture Fund Encourages and Invites Participation and Collaboration in furthering the cause of preserving the rich and varied intangible heritage of our country. Let Us Join Hands to Preserve Our Ancient Glory for Posterity. Source link

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Bookshelf | New Books on the Shelves This Fortnight (November 1, 2024)

October 25, 2024
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Francis Itty Cora T.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K Nair HarperCollins India Rs.399 This Malayalam classic is a genre-bender combining history, myth, mystery and magic. Set in present-day Kerala, war-torn Iraq, ancient Alexandria, and Renaissance Florence, the novel is a romp through history. ___ Jahanara Sukumaran Eka Rs.399 Shah Jahan’s

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