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ART AND CULTURE - June 2022

Jun 2022

Oct 31, 2022

Ministry for Rural Development Inaugurates The Saras Food Festival-2022

Union Minister of State for Rural Development, Faggan Singh Kulaste has inaugurated 'SARAS FOOD FESTIVAL, 2022'.
He also launched the e-commerce portal www.esaras.in for better and more effective marketing of Saras products prepared by women of self-help groups.
It will be conducted from 28^th October to 10^th November, 2022 at Handicraft Bhawan, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, CP, New Delhi.
It is a unique example of women's empowerment.

Oct 29, 2022

Prime Ministers' Museum Readies Gallery on Modi, to Open for Public in January

The Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya (the Prime Ministers' Museum) is readying a gallery on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A ministry statement said that the gallery is scheduled to open for public viewing in January 2023.
Inaugurated by PM Modi in April 2022, the museum at Delhi's Teen Murti Murg displays the life and contribution of the country's 14 Prime Ministers — from Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh.

Oct 28, 2022

Kenya's Samburu Warriors Still Practise a Rock Art Tradition that Tells their Stories

The Samburu people in northern Kenya's Marsabit county are pastoralists. They migrate from place to place in search of pasture and water for their cattle, goats, sheep and camels.
As part of their lifestyle, Samburu boys go through an initiation period when they live in rock shelters, learning how to take care of their animals and how to become warriors.
During this time the young warriors, called lmurran, express themselves by painting images on the rocks. This is one of very few ongoing rock art traditions in the world, but it has gained almost no attention among rock art researchers.
Rock art has been made for more than 60,000 years and it exists on every continent except the Antarctic.
Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia are among the few other places where new rock art is still being created, maintained or repainted like at the Samburu sites.

Oct 26, 2022

Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' Declared Best Indian Film by International Federation of Film Cr...

Legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray's feature "Pather Panchali" was declared the best Indian film of all time by International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).
The 1955 film received the number one slot in the top ten films in the history of Indian cinema list, which was declared after a poll conducted by the India chapter of FIPRESCI.
Based on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, "Pather Panchali" was Ray's directorial debut. It starred Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Pinaki Sengupta and Chunibala Devi.

Oct 22, 2022

"Kashi Tamil Sangamam" is to be Organized in Varanasi from Nov 16 to Dec 19

Union Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, along with MoS, I&B and Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying L. Murugan, announced the "Kashi Tamil Sangamam" would be held from November 16 to December 19, 2022.
Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti (BBS) came up with a proposal to rediscover, reaffirm and celebrate the age-old links between the Tamil culture and Kashi that have existed for centuries.
During the Kashi Tamil Sangamam academic exchanges – seminars, discussions etc will be held between experts/ scholars on various facets of the two ancient manifestations of Indian Culture, with focus on bringing out the links and shared values between the two.

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