Hanoi, March 11 (IANS) The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina reported.
The Temple of Literature, located in a park in central Hanoi, was founded by emperor Ly Thanh Tong in
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Port-au-Prince, March 11 (IANS) The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean nation.
Unesco director-general Irina Bukova said this at the end of her two-day visit to Haiti Wednesday.
Bukova said the
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New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) musicians in Europe, is inspired by Indian music that 'creeps' sub-consciously into his compositions.
'I like Parveen Sultana and Bismillah Khan. When I played in India at the Yatra jazz Enrico Rava, one of the most sought after jazz festival in Mumbai 25 years ago, I
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Should Maqbool Fida Husain, who put the Indian contemporary art on the world map, have given up Indian citizenship? The artistic community is sharply divided.
While some feel that he should not have left India, others contend that he wanted to put the past behind him
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Vadodara, March 8 (IANS) Eminent linguist and the founder director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages D.P. Pattanayak Monday urged the central government to conduct the long overdue linguistic survey in the country.
'This is the only way to know all our languages,' Pattanayak said.
The octogenarian was speaking at the
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Iconic artist Maqbool Fida Husain, who has been granted Qatari citizenship, has surrendered his Indian passport to the Indian embassy in Doha, an official said.
The 95-year-old painter met Deepa Wadhwa, India's ambassador to Qatar, Sunday and surrendered his Indian passport, M.R. Qureshi, second secretary at
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Spirituality, women's bonding, landscapes, coloured abstractions, shapes and figures - 261 artists from all over the world have put their thoughts on 300 canvases in one of the biggest women's art exhibitions at the Art Mall here.
The exhibition titled 'Stree', which began three years ago
Agra, March 8 (IANS) One of the last exponents of the Agra Gharana of Hindustani classical music, 86-year-old Ustad Akeel Ahmad Khan is not only unwell but is also a disenchanted man. He has no government support and says this city 'honours only the dead'.
Tracing his lineage to the
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Book: 'Himalayan Wonderland, Travels in Lahaul and Spiti'; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Author: Manohar Singh Gill (union sports minister); Price: Rs.599
In the summer of 1962, a restless young Indian administrator, Manohar Singh Gill, made an arduous journey from the north Indian plains to the farthest reaches of Indian Himalayas - the Lahaul
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New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Nearly a dozen whirling dervishes of the mystic Sufi cult set the stage at the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (IGNCA) on fire with their high-energy religious folk dance and music in the capital Saturday evening.
The dancers of Egypt's famous Al Tanourra ensemble performed
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