Culture
India Art Fair 2016
January 13, 2016
The India Art Fair 2016, which will be held from 28th January to 31st January, will showcase South Asian contemporary art at NSIC grounds, Okhla, in New Delhi. India Art Fair was first organized in the year 2008 and rooted itself as South Asia’s number one platform for showcasi...
Read MoreBanarasi Silk
January 6, 2016
The popular hand woven Banarasi silk sari from Varanasi has passed the test of time through centuries. But the import of cheap Chinese silk and introduction of power loom pose immense threat. That the obsession for Banarasi silk sari (traditional Indian wear for women) is not lim...
Read MoreItalian Art in Delhi
December 15, 2015
India is at the centre of the maps displayed at the art exhibition ‘Terra Incognita’, in the Italian Cultural Centre in Delhi, till January 10 2016. Italian artist Pietro Ruffo goes across the history of the country through different times, using old or more modern maps and t...
Read MoreThe Artisans of Jodhpur
December 12, 2015
Folk music, dancing wooden puppets, miniatures and intriguing sculptures. Smell of freshly cured leather drifts through the air awakening all our senses and we discover the thousand and one facets of its craft as we walk through the Jodhpur Fort, in the deserts of western Rajasth...
Read MoreThéâtre en Inde
December 11, 2015
Ariane Mnouchkine, grande dame du théâtre français et mondial, fondatrice du Théâtre du Soleil en banlieue parisienne, est en Inde jusqu’en janvier prochain. Elle organise à Pondichéry des ateliers avec des comédiens venus de toute l’Inde, pour développer un esprit d...
Read MoreOktoberfest 2014
November 18, 2015
The 16-day beer-soaked revelry – Oktoberfest – ended with a bang on October 5. The event was attended by over 6.5 million beer-lovers who consumed nearly 1.7 million gallons of beer. At 12 noon dot on September 21, Munich’s mayor Dieter Reiter tapped the first barrel, d...
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