When Europeans landed on Indian shores in their quest for spices, they were also seduced by the high-quality materials, colour-fast dyes, floral patterns, sacred motifs, and geometric forms of the ...

New Delhi, India – With dozens of mosques, four churches and a temple to his credit, Govindan Gopalakrishnan, 85, is hardly your typical architect. Instead, what has driven the octogenarian ...

Break the pattern Visiting German artist Frauke Frech will offer a new take on the tradition of mehendi, which will be demonstrated at an event scheduled today in the city, writes SHAILAJA TRIPATHI ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented traditional Indian exquisite gifts to world leaders during the BRICS Summit in Rio de ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India's spiritual ... of how Hindu female deities were represented in later centuries. On display also are captivating ...

Raja Ravi Varma “Lady in Moonlight”. Popular calendar art. Here I examine the ‘popular calendar art’ of India from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

His vision for the building considers the “multiple civilisations of India” and will incorporate “the mind-blowing designs of Hindu shrines, the geometry of Rajasthan’s Mughal architecture ...

As a national campaign by right-wing groups inflames local tensions, Muslim communities are facing the harshest punishments, according to activists, analysts and retired officials.