Google Arts & Culture has partnered with India’s Ministry of Culture to digitise and present the country’s cultural heritage to audiences in India and abroad. The agreement will make monuments, manuscripts, museum collections and traditional art forms more discoverable through digital platforms. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on 5 November 2026 at a […]
Gond painting grows out of the visual and oral traditions of the Pardhan Gonds and related Gond communities across Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, eastern Maharashtra, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The word “Gond” derives from the Dravidian expression “kond,” which refers to green mountains and points to the community’s long relationship with hilly forested terrain. Historically, Pardhan
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The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut has put a remarkable 37-foot-long Indian scroll on public view for the first time. The exhibition Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850 runs until 21 June. A Panorama of Lucknow in Scroll Artists created the scroll between 1821 and 1826. It
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The idea of art for tribe and tribal people is not quite aligned with the world view of it. Art isn’t exquisite for the the tribe it is integrated in their life the way food is. Art is playful, experiential, raw and real. That’s what one feels when they look at the art created by
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Delhi High Court will soon hear a landmark case filed by five Bidri artisans from Bidar against eyewear retailer Lenskart for allegedly infringing the Geographical Indication (GI) tag “Bidriware”. Creative Dignity’s Craft IP Cell is supporting the suit, spotlighting it as a critical stand against corporate exploitation of traditional crafts. Petitioners and court filing The
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The serene Mughal-era gardens of Sunder Nursery will once again echo with the sounds of devotion, poetry, and mysticism as the Sufi Heritage Festival returns for its second edition on February 28 and March 1, 2026 (2–10 PM). Conceptualised by Yasmin Kidwai and Himanshu Anand under Culture Plus, and powered by Aadyam Handwoven (an Aditya Birla initiative), the festival seeks to recast Sufism not
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Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar will once again become the stage for an extraordinary confluence of sound, light, and legacy as Songs of the Stone returns for its second chapter on 8 March 2026. Conceptualised by Simar Malhotra under her cultural platform Inkpot India, the series transforms heritage monuments into immersive performance spaces where music and architecture converse across centuries. Presented in
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French President H.E. Mr Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the French Institute in India (IFI) on 18 February 2026 marked a significant deepening of Indo-French cultural ties, with a spotlight on artists, writers, designers and craftspeople as “new cultural passeurs” between the two countries. Event overview and The Brij announcement Held in New Delhi as part
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The Dastkari Haat Samiti, under the leadership of its President Jaya Jaitly, will host the 40th Annual Dastkari Haat Crafts Bazaar at Dilli Haat, INA, New Delhi, from January 1 to 15, 2026. The annual event, a highlight of Delhi’s winter cultural calendar, brings together artisans from across India to showcase the country’s vast craft
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The Indian Cultural Congress 2025 in Kochi was held as a national gathering of artists, writers, scholars and performers, foregrounding pluralism, dialogue and resistance to cultural homogenisation. Over three days from December 20 to 22, the city was turned into a dense network of seminars, performances and exhibitions spread across multiple venues in Ernakulam. Event
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