Dhanuyatra of Bargarh, the world’s biggest open-air theatre, is unique in many respects. It is a theatre having the biggest assembly of actors that a play can ever have, with almost the entire population of Bargarh, a...
Read MoreThe twin arts of dance and sculpture developed together in close spiritual association with the concept of the Divine Being himself as a dancer in Tamil Nadu. The fusion of these two arts dates back to the dawn of our...
Read MoreOdissi dance is the typical classical dance form of Orissa and has its origin in the temples. The rhythm, the bhangis and mudras used in Odissi dance have a distinctive quality of their own. Odissi dance deals largely with the...
Read MoreOrissa was famous as Kalinga, Kosala, Odra and Utkala during ancient days. All these independent regions came under one administrative control which was known as Utkala and subsequently Orissa. The name of Utkala has been...
Read MoreSurina Devi, a matronly 70-year-old in a brown crepe sari, had a so-so life, she says, until her shopkeeper husband died four years ago. For reasons she is unable or loath to explain, the former housewife from a rural village...
Read MoreThe history of Nepalese stone sculpture goes back at least two thousand years according to Lain Singh Bangdel, author of “The Early Sculptures of Nepal.” The survival of the oldest sculpture in the country indicates...
Read MoreThe art was practised in Bengal from the earliest through early medieval to medieval times and even persisted on Hindu monuments till the mid-nineteenth century. The art is noticed in all forms – small clay figurines, clay...
Read MoreOver the last two years, the Sun has run numerous articles about the plight of the widows in Vrindavan Dhama. In August 2005, the issue gathered steam with the release of a film entitled Shwet – White Rainbow, which was...
Read MoreA manuscript of Gita Govinda, scribed on ivory, has recently been declared as a National Heritage of India. Many, predictably, are curious to know the greatness of Gita Govinda that has elevated a copy of its manuscript to such...
Read MoreThe Ajanta caves, listed in UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites, is one of the most known and aesthetically acclaimed heritages of India, standing witness to the achievements of the ancient Indian artist, the silpin. This...
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