The paintings done by Hyderabad artist Syed Ahmed to document the Ajanta Caves get a facelift through these conservation efforts. | Photo Credit: Serish Nanisetti Sometime in 1910, artist Christiana Herringham left her home in London for India and travelled to reach the Ajanta Caves in Central India, which she had visited four years earlier. … Read more
The painting of a man tilling land during Mesolithic era, found at Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A Mesolithic period rock painting depicting a person tilling a piece of land has been found by D. Kanna Babu, former Superintending Archaeologist of the Temple Survey Project (Southern Region) of the Archaeological Survey … Read more
It is a journey that began when people came to pawn family heirlooms at the jewellers. A sixth-generation jeweler, Ajit Gadgil, couldn’t help but admire the artefacts and realise some of these were rare pieces of craftsmanship and needed to be preserved. He found it impossible to melt these priceless pieces for the metal and … Read more