River clean up and cycle tour as a part of Pondicherry Heritage Festival 2024 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The coastal town of Puducherry, often dubbed the Paris of the East, sees a huge influx of tourists on a weekly basis. The yellow and white buildings of French colonial architecture, artisanal cafés, and serene beaches, act […]
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Revisiting the story of a hookah with a 300-year-old history of maritime trade, made in a small port town in Kozhikode, is just one of many interventions by concerned residents in Kerala to conserve and preserve the heritage of the State. They are making determined efforts to raise awareness of the heritage on a micro-level […]
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A leopard skin lies on a table at Namita Jaspal’s lab, set on the second floor of her three-storeyed house in New Chandigarh, a township just outside the eponymous state capital of Punjab and Haryana. “It has come for restoration from a private collection,” says Namita, the chief conservator of Heritage Preservation Atelier, a company […]
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A splash of red here, a dab of white there, some fine lines in black, followed by a sweep of blue…. At the end of two-and-a-half hours, the watercolours on the white paper take on the shape of the heritage building of P Orr and Sons in Chennai. A work in pen and ink focusses […]
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Explore Cubbon Park @ Bangalore Local Walks For Sriram Aravamudan, a writer, blogger and video maker focussed on Bengaluru’s culture since the early 2000s, kickstarting Bangalore Local Walks was “a happy turn of events”. “I was invited by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) in mid-2022 to conduct a local history walk in Malleswaram […]
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Organised by Dungarpur-led non-profit organisation Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with Scorsese’s The Film Foundation (TFF) and the International Federation Of Film Archives (FIAF), the seventh edition of the workshop will be held from December 4 to 10 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay in Mumbai Organised by Dungarpur-led non-profit organisation Film Heritage Foundation […]
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The upcoming World Architecture Festival 2022’s shortlist demonstrates how the pandemic has shaped homes and work-spaces, prompting more sustainable, human-centric design The upcoming World Architecture Festival 2022’s shortlist demonstrates how the pandemic has shaped homes and work-spaces, prompting more sustainable, human-centric design When architect Puran Kumar got started on renovating his firm, Studio PKA’s studio […]
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Chennai-based Storytrails launches a fun-filled, information-packed book drawn from its walking tours across the country Chennai-based Storytrails launches a fun-filled, information-packed book drawn from its walking tours across the country The skyline of Chennai’s coast is pinned in place by the Arabian Nights-like turrets of the High Court on the one side, and the Gothic spire of […]
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In the process of highlighting the history of development plans in Maximum City through 18 case studies, the architect says he has learnt a lot from Mumbai’s residents In the process of highlighting the history of development plans in Maximum City through 18 case studies, the architect says he has learnt a lot from Mumbai’s […]
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