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ART AND CULTURE - April 2022

Apr 2022

May 01, 2022

Flipkart & West Bengal Inks Deal to Support Artisans

Flipkart inked an MoU with the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Textiles (MSME&T) Department, Government of West Bengal. The deal was signed to train and support local artisans, weavers, and handicraft makers to utilise the Flipkart platform to scale their local products nationally. Flipkart Samarth programme was designed to empower artisans/weavers with ecosystem support.

Apr 30, 2022

Chandigarh Festival Celebrates Myriad Musical Genres

The 51st edition of Pracheen Kala Kendra's week-long All India Bhaskar Rao Nritya and Sangeet Sammelan was held at the Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh. Named after maestro Gayanacharya Bhaskarbua Bhakhle, it featured performances by both young and established artistes.

Apr 29, 2022

India Art Fair 2022: 'Masterpieces' Celebrates 200 Glorious Years of Indian Art

On display was artwork by MF Husain, SH Raza, Gulammohammed Sheikh, A Ramachandran, Atul Dodiya, Bharti Kher and Jitish Kallat, and several others. Thousands of artworks, put together by over 60 galleries and 14 institutional participants were on display in India Art Fair 2022.
Apart from workshops and panel discussions, the fair saw numerous new books, including a braille book The Art of Benode Behari Mukherjee by Kolkata Centre for Creativity, a book on ceramicist PR Daroz titled Fire In the Soul, published by Gallerie Nvya, and a book documenting Indian sculpture, Moulded Magic: Sculpture on a Bench, presented by Chawla Art Gallery.
When the Covid-induced lockdown was first announced in India in March 2020, it had just been over a month that the fair had wrapped up. As a result, the 2021 edition was not held.

Apr 28, 2022

Divya Kala Shakti Cultural Event Held At Mumbai

The colorful cultural event "Divya Kala Shakti: Witnessing the Abilities in Disabilities" was organized, by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJ&E), Govt. of India in Mumbai. The inauguration began with the Indian National Anthem in Indian Sign Language was followed by a continuous demonstration of potentials of 86 children who are differently abled, in a colourful display of stage through fifteen unique events in the form of dance, music, puppetry, acrobatics etc. in classical, folk and modern style.
The children and youth with different disabilities from the states in the western region such as Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Daman & Diu participated in this event.

Apr 27, 2022

Carbon Dating Finds Asurgarh is Odisha's Oldest Fortified Settlement

The Asurgarh fortified settlement, which was excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Odisha's Kalahandi district, was ascertained to be the oldest among the major fortified settlements in the state. It dates back to the ninth century BC. To determine the age of the ancient settlement, archaeologists deployed the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon technique, which established the Asurgarh era as spanning over three cultural phases from ninth century BC to second-third century AD. Modern carbon dating methods have not been used to determine age in any of the other excavation sites.
A total number of 417 antiquities have been retrieved from the site. Beads of coral, lapis lazuli, carnelian, glass, jasper, garnet, shell, agate, milky quartz, terracotta, kaolin, and soft stone, and circular discs made out of potsherds and stone, form the richest collection among the antiquities.

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