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The most common birds we see are also among the most striking. In Birds of India, Jagjit Singh takes you on a tour of the greatest aviary ever built – our earth. Illustrated in water colour and lovingly descriptive of the birds’ features, habits and habitat, this is more than a mere reference book. Birds of India is a field guide for the amateur naturalist. In an India of burning forests and shrinking habitats, it is reminder of what there is to see – and a ...
A legend is perhaps what describes painter and filmmaker M F Husain best; a mystical, almost magical figure compounded by a charm to which no one is immune. Who wouldn’t want to know the man behind the aura, discover the human aspect of a legend? In Conversation with Husain Paintings, Rashda Siddiqui, Husain’s companion and closest friend’s tender tribute to the Husain phenomenon, as someone who has known and observed him intimately for several decades, ...
Born at midnight, fated never to see the sunshine of amity. That, to some, is the India-Pakistan story. Whether it is Kashmir or the nuclear issue or the cricket field, the two seldom seem to agree. A shared culture has ever divided, never united. The subcontinental twins went to war within months of becoming independent. Over the following half-century, they’ve fought three other wars, clashed at the United Nations and in every conceivable global forum. Today, ...
The present work, for the first time, portrays a comprehensive picture of cultural contacts between India and laos since times immemorial. In ancient time, India’s cultural contacts extended to a wide region all over Asia. Its beginning go back a very long way in time, and the great cultural movements accompanied with political settlements in the beginning of the first two centuries of the Christian era brought about by the Indians in those far-off lands ...
Since time immemorial, Indians have striven for and celebrated concept of perfect beauty. Decoration is a part of everyday life and everything, from a length of cloth to the palms of a young bride, becomes a canvas for ornamentation. Traditional Hindu women have been expected to be attractive at all times and the secrets and science of how to make the most of their looks are taught to every young girls. From natural skin polishers and face masks to herbal hair ...