From Ellora in India to Angkor in Cambodia, Deepa Mandlik's Dynasties of Devotion uncovers the splendour of temples that ...

The Cholas were one of the first south Indian empires to go global ... Dancing Shiva-Nataraja was in fact “evangelised” by a Chola queen, Sembiyan Mahadevi. But the Cholas oppressed other ...

That result set a new record for Modern Indian art at auction, as well as Indian painting. Leading Christie’s South Asian Modern and contemporary auction, it almost doubles the previous record ...

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History, however, can also be told “at the junction of different possibilities…for example, architecture, art ... the dowager queen. “This woman, who came to the Chola family with little ...

Show Full Article A leading scholar in Indian art history, Dehejia used evocative storytelling ... Their ambitions were equally driven by pearls. Queen Panchavan, consort of Rajaraja Chola, made an ...

Each year, bead by bead, she spends over 40 hours a week creating her Black Masking Indian suit ... explained Queen Tahj. The NFL design team asked her to create both theme art and the logo ...

As art historian Vidya Dehejia writes in The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, “Was Sembiyan herself devout? Possibly, although she may have astutely ...

From words like cash (from the Tamil kasu) and Coromandel Coast (from Chola Mandalam or Chola circle) to Tamil temple architecture and economic systems that made Indian textiles world-famous ...

Here is looking at 3 box office records, which makes her the undisputed queen of Indian cinema. Now, if that does not spell success, we do not know what else does. Her bankability and box office ...

Also, high duties were imposed on finished Indian textiles imported into Britain ... Then there was Kundavai, the sister of Rajaraja I and his principal queen, Lokamahadevi, who added considerably to ...

Non-statutory warning: it requires some patience while dealing with South Indian ... Chola”. The bride’s name is Padmavati and she represents the lotus, a recurring motif in our literature and ...