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Heritage
Archaeology
‘Missing’ monuments of India tell a tale of neglect
The reintroduction of the AMASR Amendment Bill sparks concerns over the future of India’s protected monuments and archaeological sites.
Ismat Ara
Culture
Uru Music Collective: Recreating ancient instruments
How a young band in Chennai is combining scholarship, innovation, and tradition to make ancient musical instruments come alive.
Jinoy Jose P.
Essay
How Bihar is rapidly losing the libraries that it was once famous for
Once famous for its glorious libraries, Bihar has slowly lost many of them. Today, only 51 remain, while six districts do not have even a single one.
Syed Faizan Raza,
Ali Fraz Rezvi
History
Where did Nana Saheb go after fleeing India in 1859?
Did the Peshwa land up in Nepal, or was he living in Bhutan in the court of Druk Desi Jigme Namgyal?
Tshering Tashi
Heritage
Tamil Nadu in focus as debate over restitution of antiques rages on
While the recovery of missing temple idols is a shrill demand, the retrieved artefacts often lie in abject neglect.
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
West Bengal
Patuas of West Bengal sustain their art of storytelling through scrolls
Through painted scrolls and songs, it now flourishes in varied adaptations, putting the art on the world map.
Hiren Kumar Bose
Culture
Assamese monks on mission to save rare culture and language
This Buddhist community began an initiative to preserve Tai Phake history, culture, and identity.
Gurvinder Singh
More stories from Heritage
ICHR exhibition presents selective view of medieval Indian history
An exhibition on medieval India’s “unexplored dynasties” betrays an effort to manufacture history.
Krishna Mohan Shrimali
Can the 150-year-old Kolkata tramway keep up with the city’s frantic pace?
Kolkata’s oldest and greenest mode of mass transit might just ramble into the sunset.
SANDIP ROY
ASI Mysuru works on preserving history from inscriptions in estampages
The agency intends to soon establish a National Museum of Epigraphy in south India.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
Abanindranath Tagore: Garden house of the homing artist restored
But the sprawling mansion where the Bengali author-artist breathed his last lies in utter neglect.
Soumitra Das
The museum that Biswajit Sahu built in the Sunderbans
More than 10,000 items painstakingly gathered over the years are on display in remote West Bengal.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Design Centre on Wheels: A mobile museum that promotes indigenous embroidery in Kutch
The project led to many innovations in motifs, designs, and scale.
Ami Shroff
Chennai’s Museum of Possibilities
Funded by the Tamil Nadu government, the project is managed by the NGO Vidya Sagar.
Siddarth Muralidharan
‘Museums are better than textbooks’: Archaeologist Ravi Korisettar
Robert Bruce Foote travelled across south India for over 40 years collecting antiquities.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
Editor’s Note
India treats its museums like nothing better than ill-run warehouses.
Vaishna Roy
Conflictorium: A platform to speak of the atrocities against tribes
“A space that strives to engage every section of society with a variety of conflict issues.”
Anupama Katakam
Dakshinachitra: A continuous cultural journey
Dakshinachitra also curates a rich variety of folk art through special State and thematic festivals.
Siddarth Muralidharan
Museums are needed to preserve cultural heritage
This is one of the biggest challenges for contemporary societies: as important as the health of a society or the environment.
Sabyasachi Mukherjee
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