Culture

From the 1970s, theatre in India has become more inclusive by incorporating women's issues in their plots and by also incorporating women writers, actors, directors. There has been an attempt to question the phallocentrism and phallogocentrism discourses and make the masses aware of the issues faced by women through their theatre. It was popularised by groups like Jana Natya Manch, and by people like Usha Ganguli and Vijay Tendulkar. Over the years, it has included issues of sex workers, the dynamism of gender, equality in the workspace, among other socially relevant issues.

In an era where everything is viewed with a political lens, monuments face the ugliest brunt.

Fairs are a place of fun and frolic but they mean different things to different people. It is not just limited to the pomp and show of food, games and shops; they eventually were colonised by the capitalist consequences and the need to survive and replaced with national level fairs.

” The statuettes popularized by the names of ‘Dancing Girl’ and ‘Mother Goddess’ suggest the existence of a scantily dressed people with elaborate headdresses, hairstyles and jewellery.”

“An entry in the Bengal District Gazetteers: 24 Parganas, affirms that Tong Ah Chew was granted a portion of land by Governor-General Warren Hastings of the East India Company, where he established a sugar manufacturing mill. Even though the sugar mill was closed down after his demise, many Chinese workers relocated to Kolkata and were later accompanied by others from their homeland.

Comics revolutionized the journey of reading for kids and adults alike. Also known as “Chitrakatha” in India, they have catered to a vastly different kind of experience for most of the bookworms out there. Let us have a look at how things are evolving for them amidst the ongoing pandemic and rapid digitalization.

Hindu temple architecture has developed over thousands of years following these principles and has richly blossomed into centres of Hindu beliefs and pilgrimages. The architectural styles of the temples are now completely engrained in the psyche of the people and any major tinkering with these styles is hard to think of.

The graphic novel is neither the conventional novel, ranging across various chapters and numerous pages, nor the conventional comic book, which includes comic strips along a story line, typically that of a superhero. Graphic novels draw elementally from the aforementioned, however, they emerge as a genre in and of themselves.

“In 1968 the three language formula was chosen with regard to language learning. According to this formula people of Hindi speaking states were to study Hindi, English and a modern Indian language and people from Non Hindi speaking states were to study their regional language, Hindi and English.”

India is a multi-lingual country, home to many dialects and registers of language. Seraiki, being one of them has been the prized heritage of a lot of people. However, it is one of the many victims of linguistic erosion in India. Read more about this language here.