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.
Feb 17, 2020
Modi Inaugurates 'Kashi Ek Roop Anek' Exhibition in Varanasi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 'Kashi Ek Roop Anek', a cultural arts and handicrafts exhibition, at the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Hastkala Sankul.
He evinced keen interest in the products on display as he went around several stalls and personally interacted with buyers and artisans coming from different countries, including the US, England and Australia.
'Kashi Ek Roop Anek' showcased products from over 10,000 artisans from all over Uttar Pradesh.
Artistes and weavers at the two-day event would impart skills for improving the quality and branding of their wares suitable for the larger national and international markets.
There are 23 lakh artisans and weavers residing in Uttar Pradesh. Of these, about 35,800 artisans and 1.5 lakh weavers stay in Varanasi alone.
The Uttar Pradesh government had launched the ambitious scheme 'One District, One Product' (ODOP) in which one craft per district was identified.
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