While Harappan seals may not directly represent the spiritual contemplations of later eras, they hold nascent imagery that would later shape Puranic and Hindu iconography. The Harappan ...

As an offspring of Aditi, a Vedic entity representing infinity, Surya is one of the twelve Adityas, which also include Indra, ...

New Delhi: Nearly a month after the famous portrait of Pakistan Army’s 1971 surrender at the Army Chief’s annexe in South Block was replaced with an art piece depicting Ladakh’s Pangong Tso lake, ...

The book traces violations of freedom of religion and belief since 2014, extensively documenting communal violence, hate ...

Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra, ruled by Jupiter, is an auspicious day to seek blessings from Ajikapada, a form of Lord Shiva ...

The painting of the lake and its shore in the backdrop of snow-capped mountains juxtaposes history and Hindu religious iconography with modern military paraphernalia. Images of Chanakya and Garuda ...

Rand Hardy, “Scribbler” (2024), Aqua-Resin (image courtesy Catskill Art Space) Among the great trios of Hindu iconography are Brahma (creator), Vishnu (preserver), and Shiva (destroyer), and ...

Each Yogini stands for a different quality of the Goddess and is symbolised by a unique weapon or mounted on a different creature. In Hindu iconography, the Yoginis are said to stand in worship around ...

With every emperor, there is a change in the style in terms of symbology, iconography, and imagery, and we know a lot about what they ate and how they behaved from these paintings,” says author ...

The Government College of Art in Calcutta was ‘established by a benevolent government for the purpose of revealing to the Indians the superiority of European art’, in the second half of the 19th ...