Chalukyas

Rabindranath Tagore

Raghunath Rai Chowdhry (born 1942), known as Raghu Rai, is an Indian photographer and photojournalist

Rachel Carson

Suryamall Mishran

Raut Nacha is a ceremonial dance performed mainly by the tribal community of Chhattisgarh. It is performed during the “dev udhni ekadashi”, after the Diwali festival. It is mainly performed by Yaduvanshis. The dance form carries with itself sacred mythological and religious traditions.

Explanation: Kalaripayattu also known as Kalari is the oldest martial art originated in the Kerala in South India. It includes strikes, kicks, grappling, weaponry and healing methods.

Buddhist Mudras, Hand Gestures and Meaning

This is the first collection of poetry of Sarojini Naidu.

Patanjali Yoga philosophy is one of the six major orthodox schools of Hinduism. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a key text of the Yoga school of Hinduism. Patanjali was the founder of Yoga philosophy.

It is the most important festival of western Odisha and it takes place in the bright half of the month of Bhadrab on an auspicious day fixed by the astrologers. Though the festival is intended for eating new rice of the year, it is observed as a general festival. On this occasion the new rice is cooked with milk and sugar (Kshiri) and then offered as Bhog to Goddess Laxmi

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Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism. Guru Nanak appointed Guru Angad (Lehna) as his successor and he was the second Guru of sikhs.
Guru Angad compiled the compositions of Guru Nanak, to which he added his own in a new script known as Gurmukhi.

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In classical Sanskrit drama, Vidushaka (Bufoon) is essentially a Brahmin and is a confident / attendent of the Hero. Despite being educated in Sanskrit, he speaks in Prakrit, the vernacular language of the time. Bharata mentions him along with the principal characters in his Natyasastra.

Vimana is a term for the tower above the Garbhagriha or Sanctum sanctorum in a Hindu temple in Dravidian style.

it certainly hasn’t been an easy ride there for Qamar. Since women playing the shehnai were frowned upon, the 22-year-old Hindustani classical musician initially learnt to play on the sly from a disciple of her father, also a renowned shehnai player.

The classical orchestra uses violin, flute, clarinet, cello, piccolo, Bass,…

The first stanza out of five stanzas of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata ( Jana Gana Mana in Hindi) was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950. it was originally written by Rabindra Nath Tagore in Bengali.

The neo-Vaishnavite monasteries of the Majuli island keep the Sattriya dance form of Assam alive. This dance style is originated from Ankia Nat, or one-act play. Music, dance, and drama are interlaced in it.

Gandhara School of art enjoyed the liberal patronage of Kushana rulers especially Kanishka. The Gandhara art primarily depicted the Buddhist themes. It displays Greek artistic influence and the concept of the “man-god” was essentially inspired by Greek mythological culture. Artistically, the Gandharan school of sculpture is said to have contributed wavy hair, drapery covering both shoulders, shoes and sandals etc.

Tabo Monatery was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year by the king of the western Himalayan kingdom of Guge namely Buddhist Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo. It is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.

Shaphee Lanphee is a traditional textile fabric woven and embroidered by Meitei women of Manipur. The fabric was, in the past, presented as a gift of honour (Mana Phee) to the soldiers for their bravery in a successful war, and to the praise-worthy chiefs of the Nagas of Manipur by the king of Manipur.

The National Flag of India is a horizontal tricolour of deep saffron [kesaria] at the top, white in the middle & dark green at the bottom in equal proportion. The ratio of width of the flag to its length is 2 to 3. In the centre of the white band of the Indian National Flag, there is a navy blue wheel which represents the chakra. Its design is that of the wheel which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka. Its diameter comes close to the width of the white band & it has twenty four spokes. The design of the National Flag of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947.

Khajuraho, as we know, is the ancient capital of the Chandela Dynasty. The temples here were erected simultaneously in the 11th century and are nearly equally divided among the three religions viz. Jaina, Saiva and Vaishnava. Each group has one shrine greater than the rest around which small temples have been clustered. This largest temple is Kandariya Mahadev in Saivite, Ramachandra in Vaishnavite and Jinanatha in Jain.

A temple Panchayatan has a main shrine at the centre which forms the base of the temple and is surrounded by four other shrines. It also has four subordinate shrines on each of the four corners.