Art

-: by Ayush Tripathi Paubha depicting Chintamani Lokeshvara with his consort Tara, painted by artist Lok Chitrakar [Source: Simrik Atelier] The origin of the word...

RAVNEET KAUR “Spring has brought forth groves of flowering Palasha trees swinging in the wind, bowed with loads of flowers resembling raging fire and the...

RAVNEET KAUR “The jewellery worn by the women of the royal family; if I have no other means of light, then the shine of the...

RAVNEET KAUR “Those who have a hunger for stories….of kings and queens, of Badshahs and Begums…(they) maybe seated on the floor or a torn mat;...

RAVNEET KAUR “Ibrahim ko got pita dev guru Ganapati mata pavitra sarsuti’’ (trans. Ibrahim, whose father is guru Ganapati and mother the pure Saraswati), so...

RAVNEET KAUR “[Calcutta] is not only the handsomest town in Asia but one of the finest in the world” ~ Louis de Grandpré, French Naval...

RAVNEET KAUR Thangka, meaning “something that can be rolled up” in Tibetan, are Buddhist scroll paintings. The name signifies the function as Buddhist monks and...

RAVNEET KAUR Since time immemorial, down to the present day, marriage has been sacrosanct in the Indian subcontinent. The most sacred of all rites of...

RAVNEET KAUR “To the Indian mind the unity of all forms of art is indivisible” ~ Visnudharmottara Purana “What does never change, Since the days...

By Ramyani Banerjee Unknown author. (no date) Layla visits Majnun in the wilderness [Watercolour, MS. Ouseley Add. 166, fol. 13b]. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Available at:...