Cultural Heritage – Discussion 1
Cultural heritage is unique and irreplaceable, which places the responsibility of preservation on the current generation. Smaller objects such as artworks and other cultural masterpieces are collected in museums and art galleries.
Cultural Heritage – Discussion 2
Cultural heritage is unique and irreplaceable, which places the responsibility of preservation on the current generation. Smaller objects such as artworks and other cultural masterpieces are collected in museums and art galleries.
March, 9, 2020
Deep Sea under Peril
R. Sabesh
Three - fourths of the earth’s surface is covered by the sea, of which only 7 - 8% is the coastal area and the rest is deep sea. Though the geographical area of deep sea is vast, our knowledge and understanding about the deep-sea environment is limited, due to inaccessibility and the requirement of very expensive and sophisticated instruments to carry out research at great depth. The ....
March, 9, 2020
DANCE AND MUSIC FROM THE PROTO-HISTORIC ROCK PAINTINGS
Dr. S. Gurumurthy
Head, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology,
University of Madras
and
Sairaman
Research Scholar, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology,
University of Madras
Dance and Music from the Proto-Historic Rock Paintings
The aesthetics and the sense of music and dance are instinctive to human. Man's attention towards lovely natural sound (i.e. music of nature) nu....
March, 2, 2020
Know Your Animals…
Jayanthi Rengun
Courtesy: Eyewitness - Natural World, Doling Kindersley, Hong Kong
The tiger is the largest obligate terrestrial carnivore in all of the mammalian assemblages. It is a specialized predator. It is never found far from water sources and displays great adaptability in living in different climatic regimes, ranging from temperate oak-pine forests to tropical rain forests and....
March, 2, 2020
A RARE SCULPTURE FROM PONNUR
Natana Kasinathan
Director of Archaeology,
Government of Tamilnadu
A rare sculpture having the characteristics of Lord Siva, Vishnu and Brahma has been found by the Tamilnadu State Department of Archaeology in the year 1989 from a remote village known as Ponnur near Vandavasi in North Arcot Ambedkar District.
Ponnur is one of the important Jain Centres in Tamilnadu. It possesses also Hindu t....