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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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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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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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Baburao Bagul’s ‘Lootaloot’: A Deep Dive into the Struggles of the Oppressed in Mumbai

October 25, 2024
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In the titular story of Baburao Bagul’s classic short story collection Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is Becoming Cheap)—published in Marathi in 1969 and now available in translation as Lootaloot—a poet and short story writer walks through the city in search of a muse but finds, instead, sordid stories of the dispossessed. “This

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Registration for Youth Parliament Sitting (on the theme of AKAM)

October 25, 2024
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As part of the "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava (AKAM)" celebrations, special sessions of the Youth Parliament focusing on the AKAM theme is conducted by selected schools and institutions designated by their respective headquarters. These include the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan Headquarters, Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti Headquarters, and the Directorate of Education, Government

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NeVA – CMS

October 25, 2024
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NeVA – CMS Welcome back! The migration of the

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How Watching Films Influences Perceptions and Emotions: The Impact of Cinema in Society

October 25, 2024
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Watching a documentary film about a wrongly incercerated man caused participants in a study to be more supportive of reforms to the US criminal justice system. | Photo Credit: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx/picture alliance Storytelling is about changing minds. Film is no different: since the first moving pictures in the 1890s, filmmakers

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