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ART AND CULTURE - January 2019

Jan 2019

Mar 19, 2020

Odisha's Konark Sun Temple and Statue of Unity in Gujarat Find Place in Iconic Tourism Sites List

According to the Union Minister of State (Independent) for tourism and culture, Prahlad Singh Patel, the central government included the grand Konark Sun Temple, the UNESCO world heritage site in Odisha and the Statue of Unity in Gujarat in the Iconic Tourist Sites list, taking the total number of such places from 17 to 19.
The move has been taken after the ministry got the proposals from the Odisha Chief Minister (CM) - Naveen Patnaik, the Union Petroleum Minister – Dharmendra Pradhan and other delegations.
A total of 17 iconic tourist sites were identified by the government of India in 2019. It includes- Taj Mahal and Fatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh), Ajanta and Ellora (Maharashtra), Humayun's Tomb, Red Fort and Qutub Minar (Delhi), Colva (Goa), Amer Fort (Rajasthan), Somnath and Dholavira (Gujarat), Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh), Hampi (Karnataka), Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu), Kaziranga (Assam), Kumarakom (Kerala) and Mahabodhi Temple (Bihar).

Mar 16, 2020

India's first Living Culinary Arts and Museum of WGSHA Enters Limca Book of Records

Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration (WGSHA) of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) entered the Limca Book of Records (LBR) for establishing "India's First Living Culinary Arts Museum" at WGSHA, Manipal, Karnataka. The process of WGSHA's Culinary museum's entry into the popular LBR started almost 6 months back and Chef Vikas Khanna was the founder of the first living culinary arts museum at WGSHA.
The museum was opened in the year April 2018, spread approximately over 25,000 square feet & the structure of the museum is shaped in the form of a giant pot.
The Museum consists of historical as well as household items such as plates made by the Portuguese in India, an old seed sprinkler, an ancient Kashmiri tea brewer known as 'samovar', a 100-year-old ladle used to dole out food at temples and bowls dating to the Harappan era.
The vessels from the Konkan, Udupi & Chettinad regions, apart from a large collection of rolling pins, utensils of all shapes and sizes, tea strainers of different types etc. are found in the museum.
Limca Book of Record (LBR) is a book of achievements made by Indians in India and abroad in many fields of human endeavour. It is the second book of records in the world after Guinness Book of World Records.

Mar 06, 2020

Oldest Egyptian Pyramid Reopens

The oldest Egyptian pyramid officially reopened after many years of restoration work.
The Djoser step pyramid in Saqqara dates back 4,700 years.
It was built during the Third Dynasty of the Pharoahs.
Work on its restoration began nearly 15 years ago.
It was interrupted for several years during the unrest that followed the uprising against ex-President Hosni Mubarak.
The design of the pyramid set the style for the great pyramids of Giza.

Feb 29, 2020

Crystal Palace's Lifesize Dinosaurs Added to Heritage at Risk Register

Dinosaurs are once again facing an extinction threat. Not a giant meteor this time but changing water levels threatening a Victorian Jurassic park that has fascinated and thrilled generations of visitors for 166 years.
Historic England announced that it is adding the Crystal Palace dinosaurs to its heritage at risk register, worried by large cracks appearing in some of the 30 lifesize statues that were part of a pioneering project to educate and entertain people about natural science.
The dinosaur and extinct animal sculptures were created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, one of the finest natural history artists of the Victorian era. Given that the term dinosaur had only been coined 10 years previously, it is not difficult to imagine the excitement and wonder they caused.

Feb 24, 2020

India Seeks Return of Tamil Statue in Oxford

India asked the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return a 15th century bronze statue of Tamil poet Tirumankai Alvar, which was reportedly stolen from a temple in Kumbakonam in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu in the 1960s.
The museum, which bought the statue in a London auction in 1967, informed the Indian High Commission in December that new research questioned its provenance. According to Rahul Nagare, first secretary, the mission had received a report from the Tamil Nadu police that unambiguously shows that the original idol was stolen and replaced with a fake one and that the stolen idol is the same one that is with the Ashmolean.

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