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Astonishing  Beauty of  Darjeeling: The Queen of the Hills

Darjeeling, situated in the Eastern Himalayas, is a destination that evokes images of serene mornings, verdant tea plantations, and breathtaking views of the highest peaks on Earth. Known as the "Queen of the Hills," this delightful town in West Bengal, India, presents a captivating fusion of picturesque landscapes, colonial allure, and vibrant cultural heritage. Whether you possess an affinity for nature, a penchant for history, or a thirst for adventure, Darjeeling promises to captivate your senses. Join Shubhay Tours and experience the charm of Darjeeling.

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The Attraction of Darjeeling Tea

The global tea industry receives a significant contribution from Darjeeling in the form of Darjeeling tea, renowned as the "Champagne of Teas." It is famous for its exceptional taste and fragrance. The tea gardens, spread across the rolling landscape, yield a diverse range of teas, varying from delicate and floral to strong and earthy. The special quality of Darjeeling tea stems from its distinctive terroir, which encompasses a specific blend of climate, soil, and altitude, resulting in its characteristic muscatel flavor.

A visit to a tea estate is a must-do activity when in Darjeeling. Glenburn Tea Estate, Happy Valley Tea Estate, and Makaibari Tea Estate are some of the renowned plantations that organize guided tours. Tourists can observe the complete tea-making process, from leaf plucking to final packaging, and have a tea-tasting experience.

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Majestic views and scenic beauty

The view of Darjeeling is comparable to a canvas that would inspire any painter. Located at a height of 2,042 meters (6,700 ft), the town offers awe-inspiring vistas of the snow-capped Himalayan peaks, with the magnificent Kanchenjunga standing out as the third-highest mountain in the world. Observing the sunrise over Kanchenjunga is a mesmerizing display that lures visitors to Tiger Hill, a viewing spot located 11 kilometers from the town.

The captivating appeal of Darjeeling extends beyond its stunning landscapes. Its lush forests and gardens present a peaceful sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Don't miss the opportunity to explore the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, where you can encounter rare Himalayan fauna like the red panda and snow leopard. Additionally, the nearby Himalayan Mountaineering Institute offers a fascinating insight into the world of mountaineering.

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The Toy Train: A Trip Back in Time

Taking a ride on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, or the Toy Train, is essential for a complete experience of a trip to Darjeeling. This UNESCO World Heritage Site offers a delightful journey via picturesque landscapes and attractive settlements. The narrow-gauge railway, established in 1881, links New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling, spanning approximately 88 kilometers.

The Toy Train carries passengers through stunning scenery at a relaxed pace, making stops at significant stations like Ghum, India's highest railway station, located at an impressive altitude of 2,258 meters. Moreover, the Batasia Loop, a curved track near Ghum, presents a sweeping view of Darjeeling town and the majestic mountains in the vicinity, making it a preferred location for photography aficionados.

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Cultural Mélange

Darjeeling's cultural landscape is as rich as its natural one. Many ethnic groups, including Bengalis, Tibetans, Lepchas, and Gorkhas, have contributed to the town's distinctive tapestry of customs, celebrations, and culinary traditions. The local marketplaces, where Tibetan woolens, Nepali handicrafts, and Bengali delicacies are for sale alongside each other, are a fascinating illustration of cultural diversity.

The Gorkha people eagerly celebrate Dashain, a major Hindu festival in Darjeeling. Another notable festival is Losar, the Tibetan New Year, which occurs with lavish feasts and traditional entertainment.

Architectural Charm

Darjeeling's architectural heritage stands as a testament to its colonial past. In the 19th century, the British established Darjeeling as a hill station, and their influence was visible in the town's buildings and infrastructure. An example of Gothic architecture is St. Andrew's Church, erected in 1843. The Darjeeling Planters' Club offers a glimpse into the colonial lifestyle with its wooden interiors and nostalgic charm.

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The Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the Governor, and the Windamere Hotel, which was initially a boarding house for British tea planters, are two other significant colonial-era buildings. These structures, situated amidst verdant hills and azure skies, contribute to the picturesque allure of Darjeeling.

Adventure Awaits

Darjeeling provides numerous opportunities for adventure seekers. Those who enjoy trekking can embark on the Singalila Ridge trek, which provides breathtaking views of the Everest and Kanchenjunga peaks. This trek takes you through Singalila National Park, where you can encounter a diverse range of plant and animal species, such as the elusive red panda.

Another popular sport is river rafting on the Teesta River, which offers an exhilarating adventure through the rapids while taking in the beautiful scenery. Darjeeling draws additional adventurers who want to do rock climbing, mountain biking, and paragliding.

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Culinary Delights

A vacation to Darjeeling is incomplete unless you try the native cuisine. The diverse ethnic background influences the wonderful flavor combination of local cuisine. Noodle soup (thukpa) and traditional Nepali fried bread (sel roti) are must-try dishes.

Glenary's, a historic bakery and café, makes amazing pastries and bread, while Keventer's, a popular English breakfast spot, brings a taste of colonial life. Intriguing street cuisines include spicy noodle dishes, pakoras, and chaat.

Conclusion

Darjeeling is not just a place to visit; it is a transformative encounter that creates a lasting memory in the hearts of all who venture there. Offering peaceful tea estates, awe-inspiring mountain vistas, a rich cultural tapestry, and thrilling pathways to discover, Darjeeling provides a unique medley of experiences that cater to every traveler's preferences. The mist-covered hills and fragrant tea envelop Darjeeling, and its enchanting allure has the power to captivate anyone who experiences its charm, making it the Queen of the Hills.

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Author Bio:

Snigdha Pathak (IIM Tiruchirapalli PGP 2019-21)

Snigdha Pathak is a second-year PGPM student in IIM Trichy. She has interned with GroupM Media India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as part of her summer internship. She is a computer science engineer from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, and has previously worked as a software developer with Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. in Pune.

Engineering graduate – 1.5 years’ work experience in IT – decided to go for an MBA

If I label myself this way, I’m sure millions of aspirants will be able to relate themselves with me. As I was sitting down, penning my thoughts about the famous question we get asked in all B-School interviews – “Why MBA?”, I never realized the significance it’ll have on my upcoming journey.

I have grown to love this question over my one year at IIM Trichy, as I found the brilliance of this simple, two-worded, seemingly uncomplicated question. Now, a genuine answer for this requires patience, a lot of self-introspection, and brutal honesty from us, towards our own selves. And this one question is actually what starts our MBA journey before we even step into our favorite colleges.

MBA isn’t a factory, just manufacturing the same kinds of people year after year. MBA, for me, is embracing my own self. Because when we do, we realize that we all have a place in this beautiful campus we become a part of. And as we realize our own abilities, interest, and skills, our B-School gives us the best platform to hone and own our skills in ways we could never have imagined. In IIM Trichy, we have a place for dancers, singers, musicians, painters, sports enthusiasts, and even for (of course) Excel nerds. Whatever and whoever you are, you’ll have your own place here and you’ll be loved for it. You’ll do things you never believed you had in yourself, and you’ll do so with confidence, with grace.

With the diverse batches and the colorful people we meet on campus, who grow out to become friends you’ll cherish for life, you’ll realize that you have embarked on a journey that is about self-exploration, acceptance, and self-actualization. And this is the greatest gift my MBA journey has given me. It has taught me to be more of what I have always been and made me realize that this is what the world actually needs.

From the diverse, sometimes seemingly innumerable workshops we have going on 24X7 on the campus, we can choose whatever we want to do, there is always something for each one of us. You’ll find that you can’t label a day good or bad – you’ll have the worst day in the morning, which will be turned over completely by the night when you are out with your friends or in an event by the cultural committee, dancing your heart out. You’ll find that you have suddenly become this person who knows that it actually is a fact that there’s no such thing as NO for an answer. You’ll have the best of days, have friends you’ll cry with, laugh with. You’ll realize suddenly that at 10 in the night, it’s just when your day has actually begun. You’ll hate the impossible assignments you get, and while you curse everyone in the entire cosmos for it, you’ll eventually get it done with your team, even enjoy the whole process, and love yourself for doing the impossible. From being overwhelmed to becoming this confident, prepared individual for anything life throws your way, you’ll not even realize that you have changed. And changed in the best way possible – that you’ve become a super-hero version of your own self, just with the exception of a cape.

So, in the end, I’d only like to say this – prepare your Why MBA well, this is going to be your anchor for the rest of your life. It’ll help you realize what you have, and want to offer to the world, and what makes you – you. MBA is a journey you’ll never regret, a journey that seems like one package from the outside, but is beautifully carved out, somehow magically just for us – for each one of us.

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The year that was...

Dear Friends:

Season’s Greetings!

In the celebrated Yaksha-prashna episode of the Mahābhārata, responding to one of Yaksha’s questions Yudhishtira says,

Day after day, countless beings are going to the abode of death; yet those that remain desire to live forever! What can be a greater wonder than that?

2020 served as a grisly commentary to this famous utterance.

Year after year sees birth and death, with the former always surpassing the latter. While the birth of a child causes joy to a small group of people, the death of a person can cause sorrow to millions. 2020 was a ghastly experience for me with regard to death: several individuals who influenced me either directly or indirectly passed away and in my own case, I felt death’s knock on my door—albeit for brief moments—during an irksome bout of tuberculosis that lasted a couple of months.

Some eminent personages—all renowned in their own fields—that I had the good fortune of meeting, engaging in discussions, or collaborating with over the years breathed their last in 2020 – Dr. V Prasanna Bhat (a finance/management whiz and close friend of my father whose cerebral approach to life and meticulousness influenced me in many ways), Subramaniam Chittur (entrepreneur, Rotarian, communications expert, and the man who brought Toastmasters International to India – an organization that proved transformational for me as early as during my high school days), Ranjon Ghoshal (renowned actor/director who was my guide in the world of theatre and a consummate conversationalist with whom I have discussed themes ranging from the Vedas to folk music, from Bengali literature to stage lighting, from advertising to colonial history), Ivry Gitlis (world-famous violinist whose masterclass I was lucky to attend when he visited Bangalore in 2005), Pt. Jasraj (renowned Hindustani singer with a golden voice whom I had the fortune of meeting when he performed with my guru Dr. L Subramaniam during the LGMF), Prof. Roddam Narasimha (one of India’s foremost scientists whom I was fortunate to have interacted with on three occasions, thanks to his nephew and my college classmate Varun Prakash; the eclectic mix of physics, philosophy, ancient Indian science, and Sanskrit that formed the mainstay of all my interactions with him always proved inspirational to me), and Dr. Gayatri Rajapur (an extraordinary musicologist and gottuvadyam exponent who I first met through her disciple and my friend Vinay Kumar, and later got the opportunity to interact on many occasions during the academic committee meetings of the LGCE; I always marvelled at her deep erudition, immense patience, and clear exposition).

2020 also saw the death of famous personalities who influenced me in some way or the other although I never met them: S P Balasubrahmanyam (playback singer, actor, and TV anchor), Basu Chatterjee (filmmaker and screenwriter), Soumitra Chatterjee (actor, playwright, and poet), Sir Sean Connery (actor), Irrfan Khan (actor), Prof. T N Krishnan (violinist), James Lipton (actor, writer, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School), Diego Maradona (football legend), Ennio Moricone (music composer), James Randi (conjurer, rationalist, and activist), Sir Ken Robinson (author and educationist), Sankar (artist and painter, renowned for his sketches in the Chandamama monthly including the iconic painting of Vikram and Betal), et al.

Some of the memorable episodes from the BC (Before Corona) days include my debut as a pṛcchaka (in the saṅkhyā-bandha division) in an Avadhāna of Śatāvadhāni Dr. R Ganesh; a trip with my mother to Sosale, our ancestral village; a weekend getaway with friends from my study group; editing/designing the seminal work Prekṣaṇīyam; attending the day-long dance conference Tha-Dheem that included speakers such as Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, Śatāvadhāni Dr. R Ganesh, Saroj Khan, Rajiv Menon, Nirupama Rajendra, Dr. Rajkumar Bharathi, Praveen D Rao, and Pravin Godkhindi; and participating in Madanothsava, a 1,600-year-old community festival of spring recreated by Nirupama and Rajendra of the Abhinava Dance Company.

The multiple lockdowns in 2020 gave me the opportunity to pursue my activities with greater focus and solitude. On the day of Yugadi (March 25) I started reading the Mahābhārata in the original Sanskrit along with my good friend Arjun Bharadwaj; in the early days, we met up online twice or thrice a week and discussed the chapters we read (he was always ahead of me, thus giving me the much-needed impetus to move forward!) I edited and designed a new version of Ram Gopal Misra’s 1983 classic Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders up to 1206 A.D. (which was published in October). In collaboration with my friends G S Raghavendra and Srishan Thirumalai, I worked on a modern translation of selected verses from Lilashuka’s Śrīkṛṣṇakarṇāmṛtam (which is still in progress). I spent a lot of time practising the violin. The various study groups that I am a part of also saw an upward trend with regular online sessions; while we missed the leisure and the human connection offered by in-person sessions, we were able to save travel time and also accomplish more in the same one hour allocated to the study.

During the later part of May, I contracted a fever that simply wouldn’t go away. Forty-two days without a break it persisted. Pyrexia of Unknown Origin they called it. Following a battery of tests and much speculation by medical experts from diverse disciplines I was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the lymph node. The two months of June and July were largely spent in bed, totally disconnected from all my activities. I sailed through, thanks to the good counsel of my doctors (Dr. Alaka Acharya, Dr. Amar P, and Dr. G L Krishna) and perhaps more importantly, the long-standing support from my parents and my friends. I neither deserved nor desired the unconditional love and affection that I was showered with. I really don’t know how to account for the selflessness of my family and the generosity of my friends. It is a debt that is impossible to repay. And uttering any words of gratitude will only expose my ineptitude.

In 2020, I had the opportunity to speak on a few topics to diverse groups (young professionals, dance students, interns working in the back office of a politician), write a few essays (including one in Kannada, my first), restart my sketching journey, and work on editing/designing a few books (revised edition of Studies in Ancient Tamil Law and Society by Dr. R Nagaswamy and A Tapestry of Pen-portraits by S R Ramaswamy).

I also recall with great fondness the many illuminating conversations I had in 2020 – on music (with my guru Dr. L Subramaniam and with my friends Vivekananda, Ranjani Vasuki, and Kashyap Naik), on Sanskrit literature (with G S Raghavendra, Srishan Thirumalai, and Sudheer Krishnaswami), on multiple subjects related to India and Indian culture (with Dr. S R Ramaswamy, Śatāvadhāni Dr. R Ganesh, Vasuki H A, Vighneshwar Bhat, Arjun Bharadwaj, and Jayasimha K R), on writing and literature (with Prof. L V Shanthakumari, Chandra Shekhar, Sarita Talwai, and Bhumika Anand), on art and artistry (with Nirupama, Rajendra, Sagar Mehta, and Somashekhara Sharma), on politics and society (with Cedric Blair, Karthik Rao, Shankar Venkataraman, Showri H R, Shreesha Karantha, and Vikram Phadke), on history and education (with Dr. R Nagaswamy, Dr. M D Srinivas, Sripriya Srinivasan, and the Samvit team), and a variety of topics (with my family and my friends including Aditya Jeurkar, Chandrashekhar K S, Hrishikesh M K, Pratap Simha, and Srikanteswara).

My father turned seventy in 2020 and to coincide with what he terms ‘fifty years of adulthood,’ he brought out his autobiography Doing Well, Feeling Happy, which is really a book about work-life balance and handling crisis with equanimity. He also happened to put together a small book about the amazing human body, a result of his online research, while he was trying to understand the cause for my prolonged fever. Incidentally, during my convalescence period, I wrote a short piece on the Bhaja Govindam, which was also published as a booklet along with the other two works.

I spent the last few days of 2020 with my friends and their family in the sylvan surroundings at Rishikesh, Devaprayag, Lakshman Jhula, etc. The two highlights of the trip were meditating in Vasishta Guha on December 31st evening and white-water rafting on the Ganga on the first day of 2021. To me they represent the serenity and satisfaction one must experience during the conclusion (of a day or a week) and the enthusiasm and energy one should feel during the commencement (of a new day or week).

As for 2021, I have a few plans in terms of what I wish to accomplish and how I should proceed towards my chosen goals. Having broken down the process into weekly targets, I’m going to share that with a few friends so that they will—hopefully—constantly remind me about my shortcomings. I hope to practice the violin 18 hours a week, read 100 books (having bought a Kindle as a Dasara gift), drastically cut down on sugar, sketch occasionally, considerably reduce screen time (both on my mobile and computer), and learn to live more simply with better health and greater empathy. These are all aspirations at present; let’s see how they go as the year progresses :)

Wishing you and your family a joy-filled, healthy, and prosperous new year!

Cheers, Hari PS: Here is a podcast I recorded (in conversation with Mowna Ramachandra) about the musical creations of my guru, Dr. L Subramaniam.

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2017 Third Round of Artist Project Grants

Approval of 29 projects by local artists

Edmonton artists feed our arts ecosystem as they pursue projects that develop their practice, advance creative thought and contribute to an art form. The projects span from the first draft of a play, residencies, experimenting in a new medium, to tool rental – all aiding in the artists’ artistic and professional advancement.

The Edmonton Arts Council accepts project grant applications three times a year: “small grants” of up to $5,000 twice a year and “large grants” up to $25,000 once a year. Our next intake is February 15, 2018.

Image: “Strength of the Wolf” by Metis Japanese-Canadian illustrator Mia Ohki.

Métis-Japanese-Canadian illustrator Mia Ohki will be examining the interaction of minority cultures and underrepresented groups with historical events in a new body of work. Her application included material costs to ensure her work will be exhibition quality. Where artists like Ohki are just beginning, others require funds to complete a current project. Conor McNally is filming his first music video with local band nêhiyawak. Having self-financed the principal photography, McNally is receiving funds to complete the post-production of the video set to release in early 2018.

Image: Conor McNally’s principal photography for nêhiyawak’s new music video featuring Marilyn Dumont.

Most artists will be staying close to home as they work on their project but others have to travel a little farther. Leila Plouffe has been accepted to a two-month residency at the Icelandic Textiles Centre (Textílsetur Íslands) and Kiruthika Rathanaswami will be travelling to meet with classical Indian experts in Vancouver and India. Rathanaswami is excited to develop new pieces in bharata natyam style of dance with the music composed according to her choreography.

Image: Kiruthika Rathanaswami performing bharata natyam style of dance. Photo by Ron Sangha Photography.

Below is the full list of the third round of Project Grants approved through our peer jury review process:

Alexander Ajuzieogu [AKA Alex Juzzy] | working with Doug Organ at Edmontone Studio to produce a Gospel Album featuring Afro-Canadian artists

Alyson Davies | cyanotype prints responding to poems by Mary Pinkoski

Beth Graham| write the first draft of a new play based on the real-life story of Jeanne Hebuterne, the mistress of the famous painter Amedeo Modigliani

Brenley Charkow | mentorship opportunity under the guidance of The Citadel and Jackie Maxwell

Carter & the Capitals | record ten original funk-soul songs for their debut album

Conor McNally | completion of a music video for nêhiyawak’s track “Page” featuring a reading by Métis poet, Marilyn Dumont

Elena Belyea | produce the professional premiere of her play Cleave through her ad hoc theatre company Tiny Bear Jaws, presented in partnership with Edmonton’s Fringe Theatre in March 2018

Emily Chu | expanding her illustration practice with experimental embroidery for a line of clothing

Gail Sidonie Sobat | write a historical novel based on experiences of new immigrants to Alberta and the Bosnian conflicts in the 1990s

Harley Morison | development of The Listening Room by Michaela Jeffery to preview at the ATB Financial Arts Barns in January 2018

Hilary Mussell | rent welding equipment and purchase materials for new sculptural work

Jeannie Vandekerkhove | interdisciplinary body of work that revolves around dance, sound art, and film inspired by abandoned properties in and around the Edmonton area

Kathy Fisher | editing and post production to complete a short documentary of her grandfather during WWI

Kiruthika Rathanaswami | choreograph three new works in a bharata natyam repertoire in Vancouver and have music recorded for each of the works in Bangalore, India

Laurel Sproule | write a Young Adult novel dealing with body image and bullying

Leila Plouffe | two-month residency at the Icelandic Textiles Centre (Textílsetur Íslands) in Blonduos, Iceland

Leslea Kroll | riding the Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) network for the creation of a new writing project Ride the Red Thread

Mia Ohki | materials for a new body of work examining of the interaction of minority cultures and underrepresented groups with historical events

Mohsin Zaman | Edmonton Folk Music Festival's first artist-in-residence to produce his third independent album

Nicole Moeller | development of her new play The Ballad of Peachtree Rose probing into the investigative technique known as “Mr. Big”

Nisha Patel | initiating the first spoken word poet artist residency at Nook Cafe, February to April, 2018

Paula Kirman | produce a short documentary that follows an anti-war activist and musician as he learns his family's contribution to a pro-Nazi Edmonton monument

Rebecca Campbell | development for a documentary exploring the controversy surrounding In Vitro Fertilization and Egg Donation

Sara Campos-Silvius and Rebecca John | create a short movement-based theatre piece exploring faith and belief

Stacey Cann | creation of How to Build a Wall performance piece that uses humor and absurdity to confront real issues of protection, isolation, and building barriers

Stephen Robinson | building off of his 52skillz project to produce a pilot for a web series called “Stephen vs. The Children” where kids showcase their talents.

Wei Li | production of a new series of paintings

Yong Fei Guan | creation of four contemporary sculptures using recycled plastic that will reflect on Chinese local heritage

Want to apply to have your project funded? The deadline for artist project grants is February 15!

>> Click here for information on Artist Project Grants…

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03-05-2020 Current Affairs & Daily News Analysis

eCovSens-Ultrasensitive Novel In-House Built Printed Circuit Board Based Electrochemical Device for Rapid Detection of nCovid-19 Researchers from the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, have developed a biosensor that can detect the novel coronavirus in saliva samples.

About: The new portable device named eCovSens, can be used to detect the presence of novel coronavirus antigens in human saliva within 30 seconds using just 20 microlitres of the sample. The in-house built biosensor consists of a carbon electrode and the coronavirus antibody. The antibody is capable of binding with the spike protein found on the outer layer of the virus. An electrical signal is generated when the antigen and antibody binds. Biosensors have been currently used across the world to detect toxins, narcotic drugs, and are also considered as a reliable tool to detect infectious diseases.  Source : The Hindu ( Science & Technology ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy SANKALP SCHEME In Madhya Pradesh, the Umaria police have launched a Sankalp Scheme to provide 24-hour help to the elderly, amid the lockdown.

About: Under the Sankalp Scheme, Superintendent of Police has instructed all police officers to identify and help one or two elderly families who are living alone and are worried about their everyday needs during the lockdown. Under the Sankalp Scheme, it is trying to connect police personnel along with every elderly member of the family. The police got the inspiration for the Sankalp Scheme from an elderly woman, who was worried for her medicines. The elders are also happy with this innovative effort of the police. Source : All India Radio ( Defence & Security ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy PULSE OXIMETER Some experts have advocated the use of a medical device called the ‘pulse oximeter’ for testing those who have Covid-19, or those suspected of having it.

About: Pulse oximetry is a test used to measure the oxygen level (oxygen saturation) of the blood. It is an easy, painless measure of how well oxygen is being sent to parts of your body furthest from your heart, such as the arms and legs. The device is generally used to check the health of patients who have known conditions that affect blood oxygen levels, such as heart and lung conditions, and for those who show symptoms such as shortness of breath. The device measures the saturation of oxygen in red blood cells, and can be attached to a person’s fingers, toes, nose, feet, ears, or forehead. It can be reused or disposed of after use. The device is now being recommended for the early detection of ‘Covid pneumonia’, a potentially deadly condition seen among the most severe coronavirus cases.  Source : Indian Express ( Science & Technology ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy BoBBLE (Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment): Ocean–atmosphere interaction and its impact on the South Asian monsoon A team from Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru and UK based University of East Anglia have created a blueprint for accurate prediction of monsoon, tropical cyclones and other weather related forecast.

About: The Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment or BoBBLE in short is a project funded by Union Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Natural Environment Research Council of UK. The team carried out studies of oceanographic properties on board RV Sindhu Sadhana in the southern Bay of Bengal. After which a blueprint for future weather system observational experiments was created for accurately forecasting rainfall.  Source : All India Radio ( Geography ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy ATULYA: Microwave sterilizer to disintegrate COVID-19 developed Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, a deemed university supported by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed ‘ATULYA’ as a cost-effective solution to disintegrate corona virus.

About: A microwave steriliser named as ‘ATULYA’ can be operated in portable or fixed installations and helps in disintegrating the virus by differential heating in the range of 56 to 60 Celsius temperatures. Atulya is safe to use in Home and Office. It can be used on any surface except metal.  Source : All India Radio ( Science & Technology ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy B. B. LAL On the occasion of centenary year of great archaeologist Professor B. B. Lal, Union Culture Minister released an e-book “Prof. B. B. Lal -India Rediscovered” today in New Delhi.

About: Braj Basi Lal (born 1921), better known as B. B. Lal, is an Indian archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Lal also served on various UNESCO committees. He received the Padma Bhushan Award in 2000. Important Info : Works: Between 1950-52, Lal worked on the archaeology of sites accounted for in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, including Hastinapura, the capital city of the Kurus.Lal worked on Mesolithic site of Birbhanpur (West Bengal), Chalcolithic site of Gilund (Rajasthan) and Harappan site of Kalibangan (Rajasthan).In 1975-76, Lal worked on the "Archaeology of Ramayana Sites" project funded by the ASI, which excavated five sites mentioned in the Hindu epic Ramayana - Ayodhya, Bharadwaj ashram, Nandigram, Chitrakoot and Shringaverapur.  Source : PIB ( Culture ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy GI tag to Manipur black rice, Gorakhpur terracotta The famed Gorakhpur Terracotta art has bagged the Geographical Indication (GI) tag

About: The famed baked clay or ‘terracotta’ products made from the special soil found in Bhathat area of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district gOt the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. Terracotta products are a major source of income for the residents of Aurangabad area in this district. The terracotta artists make various structures like bells, vases, Ganeshas, tables, elephants, deer, horses, bullock carts, horse carts, lamps and chandeliers.  Source : The Hindu ( Culture ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy JAMINI ROY National Gallery of Modern Art pays tribute to the pioneering artist Jamini Roy on his 133rd Birth Anniversary year through virtual tour.

About: Jamini Roy (1887 – 1972) was an Indian painter. He was one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore. He preferred himself to be called a patua.Initially he experimented with Kalighat paintings but found that it has ceased to be strictly a "patua" and went to learn from village patuas. Consequently, his techniques as well as subject matter was influenced by traditional art of Bengal. Awards and Honours:He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1955. In 1955, he was made the first Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, Government of India. In 1976, the Archaeological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India declared his works among the "Nine Masters" whose work, to be henceforth considered "to be art treasures, having regard to their artistic and aesthetic value".  Source : PIB ( Culture ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy SATYAJIT RAY Ministry of Culture’s Development of Museums and Cultural Spaces (DMCS) digitally launched the short film ‘A Ray of Genius’ to mark the beginning of the centenary celebrations of Satyajit Ray.

About: Satyajit Ray (1921 – 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), along with Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959), form The Apu Trilogy. He also authored several short stories and novels, meant primarily for young children and teenagers. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.  Source : PIB ( Culture ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy CHUNI GOSWAMI Legendary Footballer Chuni Goswami died in Kolkata on after prolonged illness. He was 82.

About: Chuni Goswami was the captain of gold medal winning Indian footballteam of Jakarta Asiad held in 1962. He was also the captain of Bengal Ranji Cricket team. He was also Sheriff of Kolkata. He was awarded Arjun , Padmasree and several others prestigious awards for his outstanding contributions in the field of Sports . He received Mohonbagan Ratna awards in 2005. The West Bengal Government conferred him the highest civilian award Banga Bibhusan in 2013 .  Source : All India Radio ( Sports ) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Daily Current affairs and News Analysis Best IAS Coaching institutes in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Contact Vignan IAS Academy Enroll For IAS Foundation Course from Best IFS Academy in Bangalore Read the full article

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Famous Indian Art Collectors

By Guest Author(Katie Jones) Art Collectors Rabindranath Tagore is widely known for his poems, short stories, and novels.  He was a prolific painter too. His paintings as his other works try to defend freedom and identity of an individual. According to him, “Art is the expression of the universal through the individual. It is an attempt to rescue truth from the dungeon of propriety.”  And it seems that he was right in holding that art is universal in nature. It is like a bond which people share with each other. Art is not related to a man’s materialistic need rather his spiritual and emotional bonds strengthens with his portrayal. That is why, the artist and the spectator, both feel an invariable attachment through art. This feeling of oneness compels art aficionados to collect art. They experience a connection when they look at a painting and purchase it if it appeals to their sensibilities. There are many private art collectors who have put wonderful efforts in giving Indian art the recognition and acknowledgment it truly deserved. Let us know about them. According to a report published in Economic Times, the number of arty collectors in the market to buy Indian art has increased at the rate of 35% over the past year.  The Indian art market is valued at around Rs 2,000 crore. This surge is seen because people are opting offbeat and unconventional artworks. For example, a sculpture made of cow dung by Subodh Gupta was bought readily by an art collector. This was unimaginable earlier. These are famous Indian art collectors:- Kiran Majumdar Shaw She is the MD and chairperson of Biocon Limited located at Bangalore. With her husband, John Shaw, she has secretly curated a collection of eclectic art. Their hunger for art is insatiable. She doesn't go after the name and fame of the painter or market value of the artwork while choosing her paintings. It is her gut feeling which clicks when she sees a painting prompting her to buy that. She has collected 800 artworks of different artists ranging from Arpana Caur and MF Husain to Scotsman Archie Forrest and Anjolie Ela Menon. Her collections flaunt works of  Paresh Maity, Yusuf Arrakal George Devlin, James Fullerton but her personal favorite is Bikash Bhattacharya.

She earns for a Picasso now. Michelle Poonawalla She is an art graduate in Interior Design and a Bachelor of Arts from the American College, London. She is the grand-daughter of the famous painter and architect Jehangir Vazifdar. Michelle is a flourishing artist herself having an acute sense of human emotions which she explores in her works. Introspection-Her latest multimedia artwork is based on increasing depressing feelings and anxiety. Her favorite artists are M.F. Hussain and S.H. Raza. She also admires the work of Kayan Pandole who studied art restoration in Florence. Her exquisite art collection is housed at Pune where she lives with her husband and children. Feroze Gujral Feroze Gujral is known as an art patron and a businesswoman. She is the founded Outset India in 2010 to promote art and culture in India. This model turned businesswoman is now a leading exporter of tableware ceramics. Her inclusion in the liberal family of Gujrals to which Indian Prime Minister I.K. Gujral and Indian modern artist, Satish Gujral belonged, opened new doors to her. After selling out her successful ventures, she established The Gujral Foundation in 2008 with her husband Mohit Gujral. Since then, they have organized and supported many international and national project to nurture contemporary Indian art. Her newest project includes the G-spot, a multipurpose art gallery in Delhi where art, design, architecture, even crafts inter-mingle. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Vivek C. Burman You all must have heard about Dabur Chyawanprash! He is the oldest living member of the Burman clan. According to him,” If a painting appeals to me, I buy”. His collection includes 50 to 60 miniature paintings from different eras. Some of these miniatures belong to Pala School of miniatures dating back to the 11th century which are inspired by Buddhism. Vivek Burman, Chairman Emeritus of Dabur, stands custodian to the exotic collection housed in his dwelling place, offices, and factories. Earlier their taste was like a king as his collection features elephant tusks, silver memorabilia, Satsuma vases, Bohemian and Lalique chandeliers, marble statuary, decoupage tables, silk and wool carpets. He also has paintings by Hemen Majumdar, Chughtai, Satish Gupta, M.F. Hussain’s portrait of his wife Sweety, S.H. Raza, Jatin Das, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Ramkinkar Baaij. Malvinder Mohan Singh Malvinder Mohan, former CEO of the Ranbaxy pharmaceuticals and his wife Japna are a premier figure in the art world. They are discreet about their passion and are extremely choosy. A recent inclusion in his cavalcade of artists is Arpita Singh with her Wish Dream among others. He also has paintings and sculptures of Tyeb Mehta, Navjot Altaf and Anish Kapoor in his dining room. India Art Ideas also identifies itself with them in their never-ending passion for Indian art and artists. Read More Blog Read the full article

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Winner of World’s Top Architecture Prize Announced—and the 9 Other Biggest News Stories This Week

01  The world’s top architecture prize went to Balkrishna Doshi, an Indian architect and urban planner known for designing public housing.

(via the New York Times and Quartzy)

“It is a very wonderful thing that happened,” Doshi told the New York Times after winning the 2018 Pritzker Prize, becoming the 45th laureate and the first architect from India to receive the coveted award. Doshi’s work is at the forefront of community-conscious, low-cost housing, driven by a belief that architecture should serve the public good rather than the demands of a single client. Doshi worked with Le Corbusier in the 1950s, overseeing several buildings that were part of the Swiss architect’s radical urban plan for the Indian city of Chandigarh. In his work, Doshi draws upon traditional Indian architecture, such as for the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore (1977–92), which was “inspired by traditional, mazelike temple cities in southern India,” according to the Times. Vastushilpa Consultants, the private practice Doshi founded in 1956, has worked on over 100 projects in total. Among the crowning achievements of the 90-year-old architect is the Aranya Community Housing in Indore, an affordable housing project designed to accommodate 80,000 residents, which features a series of interconnected homes and courtyards.

02 Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips brought in a combined £345 million with fees across their Post-War and Contemporary evening sales in London.

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Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary evening art sale in London pulled off an almost flawless performance to start the week on Tuesday, notching the highest-ever total for any contemporary art auction held in Europe, to the tune of £137.9 million, including buyer’s fees. Only five of the 65 lots offered failed to sell, for a stellar buy-in rate by lot of 92 percent. Primed with appealing and largely blue-chip offerings, the art market continued to show strength and stability at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art evening sale on Wednesday, bringing in £109.2 million after buyer’s fees with only three out of 58 lots going unsold. The tally, including fees, neared the high side of pre-sale estimates between £85.8 million  and £118.7 million; the buy-in rate by lot was a slender 5.2 percent. The hammer total was £93.4 million. The evening total was roughly a 7 percent drop from last year’s £117.4 million result, including fees. Anchored by a stunning Picasso painting and a ravishing Matisse sculpture, Phillips’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art evening sale broke into the big leagues with the firm’s best-ever sale on Thursday night, which pulled in £97.8 million, nearly seven times its total from the previous spring sale in London. The hammer tally of £84.5 million, before fees, blasted past the high pre-sale estimate of £73.1 million. Picasso’s spare yet convincingly sensual La Dormeuse, executed on March 13, 1932, in oil and charcoal on canvas and capturing sleeping beauty of his muse and mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder on the line with Marianne Hoet, deputy chairman of Phillips Europe, for a whopping £37 million (£41.8 million with fees), more than doubling its high estimate.

03  New U.S. government data shows that the arts contributed over $763.6 billion to the American economy in 2015.

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The arts sector employed 4.9 million Americans in 2015, who together earned over $370 billion, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—a contribution to the U.S. economy great than both the agricultural and transportation sectors. Together, the arts comprised 4.2% of the U.S. GDP in 2015, with the sector expanding by an average of 2.6% between 2012 and 2015, the latest year for which data is available. The data was also broken down by state for the first time. Unsurprisingly, New York and California saw the most arts-generated economic impact, with the arts adding $114.1 billion and $174.6 billion to the two states’ economies, respectively. But Washington State and Utah saw the highest year-over-year growth between 2012 and 2015, averaging more than 5% annually. “The data confirm that the arts play a meaningful role in our daily lives, including through the jobs we have, the products we purchase, and the experiences we share,” NEA chairman Jane Chu said in a statement.

04 The director of Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts has been temporarily suspended amidst mounting scrutiny of an exhibition that experts say contained forgeries.

(via artnet News and The Art Newspaper)

Catherine de Zegher was suspended Wednesday night by a board of directors that oversees the Belgian city’s cultural institutions—a decision she only learned of after being asked about it by a journalist, according to artnet News (citing Belgian paper De Tijd). The suspension will last until an investigation into the museum’s 2017 Russian avant-garde exhibition, which some experts believe was littered with fakes, is complete. This news comes amidst mounting criticism of how Zegher handled 24 works loaned to the institution by collector Igor Toporovsky, which were included in the exhibition on Russian modernism. The pieces were removed after experts raised authenticity concerns in The Art Newspaper in mid-January. Zegher claims that she had the collection examined and authenticated by two art historians, but both have since indicated that they had doubts about the works—one went so far as to label the Toporovsky works “fake.”

05  Artist Liv Wynter resigned as a Tate artist-in-residence in response to what she called “invisible inequalities” at the museum.

(via The Guardian)

Wynter resigned on Wednesday, just ahead of International Women’s Day, to bring attention to how the Tate and other arts intuitions are failing to combat sexual assault and to diversify, The Guardian reported. Wynter was particularly critical of Tate director Maria Balshaw’s comments, made last month to the Times, that she “was raised to be a confident woman who, when I encountered harassment, would say: ‘Please don’t’ ... or something rather more direct.” Wynter, who, according to The Guardian, identifies as a “queer working-class female artist,” is also a survivor of domestic violence. She said she felt “personal shame” working for Balshaw after the remarks. Balshaw later apologized for her comments on Instagram and in a meeting with Tate staff. “It is absolutely not my intention to say that women are in any way to blame,” she wrote on the social media platform. “To be clear, it is the perpetrators who are responsible for their behaviour and not the women who are subjected to it.”

06  The Guggenheim Foundation won a long-running legal dispute over the management of Peggy Guggenheim’s collection and former home in Venice.

(via The Art Newspaper)

The family of Sandro Rumney, the son of Peggy Guggenheim’s daughter, sued the Guggenheim Foundation in France in 2014. The impetus was the organization’s decision to accept 83 works from another collection and, as a result, place several works from Peggy’s collection (on view in her former Venice home) in storage to make room for the resulting exhibition. When she died, Peggy bequeathed her house and her collection to the Guggenheim Foundation in New York. The Rumney family argued that the recent removal of work from view violated both her wishes and a prior 1996 settlement reached between the the family and the foundation. But France’s highest court disagreed, ruling on Wednesday that the terms of the settlement didn’t prohibit the exhibition of work from another collection, and that the Rumneys had failed to prove that the display “damaged the reputation” of Peggy’s historic collection. The court also ruled against the family’s claim that the foundation had disrespected Peggy’s burial site and ordered the Rumneys to pay the foundation €3,000. The Guggenheim Foundation said it was “pleased that these meritless lawsuits and appeals have now come to an end,” in a statement to The Art Newspaper. A statement from the family said that Peggy’s collection should be treated as its own intellectual work, not to be changed through the display of outside pieces.  

07  Piet Mondrian’s heirs have laid a claim to four of the artist’s paintings currently held by the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld, Germany.

(via the New York Times)

Heirs of the famous modernist painter claim they are the rightful owners of the works, which Mondrian left behind when he fled Europe in the 1930s. Over three years, a team of experts hired by the heirs—led by provenance researcher Monika Tatzkow—investigated the pieces and found that the works were first exhibited in 1929. They were then loaned to the museum in Krefeld, along with four additional paintings by the artist, an account seemingly backed up by a 2010 email from a now-retired curator at the museum. But the disputed works didn’t show up in an official museum inventory until 1954, under what the then-director called “mysterious circumstances.” Although the Wilhelm has since claimed that Mondrian gifted them the works, “it has been unable to buttress that claim with evidence,” the New York Times reported. Tatzkow told the Times it seems unlikely that Mondrian would gift works at such a perilous moment, and that if they were donated, they should have been inventoried. “The theory that these were a gift is completely absurd,” she said. The museum has also argued that any legal claim by the heirs is time-barred by the statute of limitations governing the dispute.

08  French president Emmanuel Macron has appointed two experts to formulate a strategy for the repatriation of African artifacts.

(via the New York Times)

Macron announced the appointments of art historian Bénédicte Savoy and the Senegalese writer and economist Felwine Sarr on Monday. This decision marks the most concrete step yet in the long process of fulfilling Macron’s bold pledge that the “temporary or permanent” restitution of African artifacts held in France would be a top priority for his administration—a pronouncement he made during a speech in Africa in November. The promise, a major reversal from previous French administrations, was generally met with cautious enthusiasm. Some, however, were doubtful that Macron would (or could) follow through. Savoy and Saar will present their plan in November. Curator Simon Njami, who is critical of restituting artifacts and skeptical it will ever occur, told the New York Times it would be difficult to decide which nation should receive the restituted work, considering the haphazard manner in which colonial powers divided up Africa in the 19th century. Others have read Macron’s actions as a bit of deft cultural diplomacy, an effort to increase goodwill on a continent where China is becoming increasingly influential. For her part, Savoy praised Macron’s pledge in a piece written shortly after the president’s November speech. “It suggests that sharing is possible,” she wrote, adding that the decision represents a generational shift towards the issue.

09  Defendants charged by U.S. prosecutors in a $50 million stock scam hoped to use a London art dealer to launder money.

(via Bloomberg News)

In a recorded conversation, one of the alleged perpetrators in the international securities fraud scheme suggested to an undercover FBI agent that he should use a $9.2 million Pablo Picasso painting to launder illicit profits, boasting that the art market is the “only market that is unregulated,” Bloomberg News reported. According to Bloomberg News, “The alleged perpetrators range from a U.K. stockbroker with hundreds of millions of dollars under management to a bank in Budapest.” The defendants are accused of having “conspired to conceal the ownership and control of publicly traded companies in the U.S. and manipulated the price and trading volume of the stocks,” in what are known as “pump-and-dump” scams. The undercover FBI agent had asked employees of the brokerage firm Beaufort Securities Ltd. to help him launder money from an earlier scam, for which they suggested buying Picasso’s Personnages (1965)  through Mayfair Fine Art Ltd., a London dealer. Mayfair’s owner Matthew Green, who was charged in the case, agreed to arrange the sale, which was stopped before its completion. U.S. prosecutors filed the case against six defendants on Friday in a Brooklyn court, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a related civil lawsuit in Brooklyn.

10 The French High Court annulled the conviction of Pablo Picasso’s electrician and his wife, who possessed 271 works allegedly stolen from the artist.

(via The Art Newspaper)

In 2016, a court ruled that Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec––Picasso’s former electrician and his wife––must return the works, and handed them a two-year suspended prison sentence. But on February 28th, the French High Court annulled the conviction after determining that “handling stolen goods only stands if the theft itself can be demonstrated.” Now, the couple will receive a new trial focusing on who committed the theft of the works worth an estimated €70 million, with Picasso’s chauffeur, who is also Pierre Le Guennec’s late cousin, a primary suspect. The Le Guennecs claimed that Picasso’s wife, Jacqueline, gave them the artworks in 1971 or 1972, later claiming that Jacqueline (who died in 1986) gifted them a sack of pieces for their help in hiding several bags of work from Picasso’s son. “The couple’s defence lawyer, Antoine Vey, intends to develop this version, which had been discarded by the judges for lacking credibility and consistency,” The Art Newspaper reported.

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part 2 of the book speaks about their decade long partnership from "Andaaz" (1971) to "Shakti" (1982) and also includes a few biggies as "Haathi Mere Saathi" (1971), "Seeta Aur Geeta" (1972), Yaadon Ki Baraat" (1973), Zanjeer (1973), "Deewar" (1975), Sholay (1975), "Trishul" and "Don" (1978) and "Shaan" (1980) that paved the route for Amitabh Bachchan to mega stardom.

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29-04-2020 Current Affairs & Daily News Analysis

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has downgraded India to the lowest ranking, “countries of particular concern” (CPC) in its 2020 report The report, released in Washington by the federal government commission that functions as an advisory body, placed India alongside countries, including China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. India was categorised as a “Tier 2 country” in last year’s listing. This is the first time since 2004 that India has been placed in this category. According to the report, India took a sharp downward turn in 2019, which included specific concerns about the Citizenship Amendment Act, the proposed National Register for Citizens, anti-conversion laws and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Government of India reacted sharply to the USCIRF report on Tuesday, terming it “biased and tendentious” and rejected its observations.  Source : The Hindu (Social Issues) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy A study on face masks has identified a combination of two fabrics as possibly the best: either cotton plus natural silk, or cotton plus chiffon. If the fit is good, such homemade masks can effectively keep out aerosol particles About: An aerosol is a suspension of particles or droplets in the air. The virus that causes COVID-19 is thought to spread mainly through respiratory droplets, particularly when an infected person coughs or sneezes. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines two size ranges for droplets through which respiratory infections can be transmitted — 5-10 microns in diameter (respiratory droplets) and less than 5 microns in diameter (droplet nuclei). One micron is a millionth part of a metre. It is respiratory droplets (the larger size range) that are thought to be the primary route of COVID-19 infection. Airborne transmission, which is through droplet nuclei (the smaller size range), was not reported in a large study in China, the WHO notes.  Source : Indian Express (Health) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Union Minister of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj issued guidelines regarding the SVAMITVA scheme, a new initiative of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj About: SVAMITVA scheme is a collaborative effort of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Panchayati Raj Departments, State Revenue Departments and Survey of India. The program is currently being implemented in six states - Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It aims to provide an integrated property validation solution for rural India, engaging the latest Drone Surveying technology, for demarcating the inhabitant land in rural areas. Under this, mapping of rural housing land can be done using the latest survey methods and drones. This scheme will help in streamlining planning and revenue collection in rural areas and ensuring clarity on property rights. This will also help in resolving property related disputes. The scheme will enable creation of better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDPs), leveraging the maps created under this programme.  Source : PIB (Polity & Goverance) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy April 29 is the birth anniversary of the famed Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), remembered for giving Indians their western, classical representations of Hindu gods and goddesses About: Raja Ravi Varma (1848 – 1906) is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. Varma was patronised by Ayilyam Thirunal, the next Maharaja of Travancore and began formal training thereafter. A prolific artist, Varma is believed to have made around 7,000 paintings before his death at the age of 58. His most famous works include Damayanti Talking to a Swan, Shakuntala Looking for Dushyanta, Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair, and Shantanu and Matsyagandha.  Key highlights of his work His works are held to be among the best examples of the fusion of European techniques with a purely Indian sensibility. Through his printing press, Varma’s humanised depiction of Hindu pantheon travelled beyond the surfaces of costly canvases, and into the prayer and living rooms of working-class homes. He was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure. His depictions of Hindu deities and episodes from the epics and Puranas have received profound acceptance from the public and are found, often as objects of worship, across the length and breadth of India. Important Info : Honours In 1904, Viceroy Lord Curzon, on behalf of the British King Emperor, bestowed upon Varma the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal.In 2013, the crater Varma on Mercury was named in his honor.Government of Kerala has instituted an award called Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram, which is awarded every year to people who show excellence in the field of art and culture.  Source : Indian Express (Culture) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Swedish think tank, released its annual report titled ‘Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019 About: The global military expenditure rose to $1917 billion in 2019, an increase of 3.6% from 2018. In 2019, the top five largest spenders — U.S. ($732 bn), China ($261 billion), India ($71.1 billion), Russia ($65.1 bn) and Saudi Arabia ($61.9 bn) — accounted for 62% of the global expenditure. India and China emerged among the top three spenders. India was at the fourth position in 2018 with Saudi Arabia at the third. The $71.1 billion spent by India on defence in 2019 was 2.4% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). India’s expenditure in 2019 was 6.8% more than that in 2018. India’s military expenditure grew 259% over a 30-year period between 1990 and 2019 and by 37% over the decade of 2010–19. However, its military burden fell from 2.7% of GDP in 2010 to 2.4% in 2019.”  Source : Times of India (Defense & Security) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Union Minister for Environment, Prakash Javadekar represented India in the first virtual Petersberg Climate Dialogue About: The first virtual Climate Dialogue, was the eleventh session of Petersberg Climate Dialogue. It has been hosted by Germany since 2010 to provide a forum for informal high-level political discussions, focusing both on international climate negotiations and the advancement of climate action. The dialogue saw participation from Ministers and representatives of about 30 countries.  Source : All India Radio (Environment) Government has announced around 11 % increase in annual central allocation of cooking cost under Mid-day meal scheme to 8,100 crore rupees in view of situation arising out of COVID-19 About: With a view to enhancing enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in 1995. In 2001 MDMS became a cooked Mid Day Meal Scheme. The Mid-Day Meal Scheme covers children of classes I-VIII studying in government, government-aided schools, special training centres (STC) and madarsas/ maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). It is the largest school feeding programme in the world. The Midday Meal Scheme is covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013.  Source : All India Radio (Education) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Best IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Daily Current affairs and News Analysis Best IAS Coaching centers in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Contact Vignan IAS Academy Enroll For IAS Foundation Course from Best IFS Academy in Bangalore Read the full article

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Basilica de Bom Jesus- Old Goa

It Is Located 10 km east of Panaji, along the Mandovi river, is the town of Old Goa.The Basilica of Bom Jesus is the most famous of all the churches in Old Goa. It contains the relics of St. Francis Xavier, Patron saint of Goa, Apostle of the Indies. He was known as Goencho Saib by most of the people of Goa.

The Basilica of Bom Jesus is a World Heritage Monument as well as one of the finest baroque churches of Goa. The Church was built between 1594-1605 and dedicated to Bom Jesus (Good Jesus). The name of Jesus is symbolically represented by the letters ‘IHS’ and is found embellished throughout the Basilica. The IHS is also the monogram of the Society of Jesus, popularly known as the Jesuits, who usually stamped their churches with this insignia.

Goa BomJesus Nave, Interior view towards altar

History

Júlio Simão, an architect of French descent, assisted Br Domingos Fernandes SJ in constructing this magnificent edifice. Dom Jerónimo Mascarenhas (died 1593), the Captain of Cochin and Ormuz, had bequeathed a large fund towards the construction of this Church. A gilded cenotaph within the nave of the Basilica commemorates his memory.

Fine Architecture

Architecture

The Church is built in cruciform with a single nave, a sanctuary and two vaulted chapels at its transepts. It is 55.77 metres long, 16.76 metres broad and 18.59 metres high.The three storey structure is combination of Doric, Corinthian and Composite style of architecture from the exterior. It is built of black laterite stone. The façade is divided into four parts. The lowest part contains three graceful entrances. The part above it has three large windows corresponding to the three entrances. The third section has three circular windows and the fourth part forms a quadrangle decorated lavishly with arabesque.

All the sections are decorated with pillars and carvings on basalt brought from Bassein in north Goa. The interior of church is made of Mosaic-Corinthian style and is noteworthy for its simplicity. Three rows of windows are rising one over another from each side besides those of the choir and corresponding circular ones. The windows in the second row have a protruding balcony skillfully attached to them. The entrance is beneath the choir and is supported by columns. The body of the Basilica is spacious.

Inside The Cathedral

On 20 March 1946 Pope Pius XII raised the Church of Bom Jesus to the rank of a Minor Basilica. In 1986 the UNESCO declared the Basilica of Bom Jesus to be a World Heritage Monument.

Places To Visit

Art Gallery

The Art Gallery features the works of the surrealist painter Dom Martin, photographs by the art historian Benoy K Behl and a range of Indo-Portuguese statuary.

Basilica of Bom Jesus close view

Timings Everyday, except Tuesday 9:30 to 16:30 hours

Contact Sr Cecilia Fernandes FMCK Basilica of Bom Jesus Old Goa 403402, Goa, India.

Jivitacho Sondex Jivitacho Sondex is a bookstore that features books of spiritual and cultural interest, besides religious articles and souvenirs.

Timings Everyday between 9.00 and 17:00 hours.

Contact Ms Mafalda Menezes Basilica of Bom Jesus Old Goa 403402, Goa, India.

Catholic Enquiry Centre

The Catholic Enquiry Centre is an information hub pertaining to matters of the Catholic faith and life. The Centre also has books and display panels on the life of Saint Francis Xavier. A video presentation on Saint Francis Xavier and the Mausoleum is also organised regularly at the Centre.

Timings

Everyday, except Sunday 9:00 and 17:00 hours

Contact

Ms Smita Bardeskar Basilica of Bom Jesus Old Goa 403402, Goa, India.

The mausoleum

St.Francis-Xaviers-Body

It is a three-tiered bier built by the Duke of Tuscany (1670-1737 AD) in return for the pillow on which the head of St. Francis Xavier rested for many years after his death. Giovanni Batista Foggini from Florentine designed the structure and was completed in1698 AD. It arrived at Goa on 16th September 1698 from Florence, Italy and was erected between 14th October and 9th November 1698. On the top of the bier lies the Silver Casket, which contains the relics of the saint.

How To Get There

By Air The Goa international airport is located at Dabolim, which is at a distance of 29 km away from Panaji. The airport connects the domestic cities as well as international cities in U.K. and Germany. Goa to Mumbai and Goa to Delhi flights are making daily services from Goa. By Train The major railway stations in Goa are Margao and Vasco-da-gama. These stations are in the Konkan railway line and are well connected to Mumbai. By Bus Kadamba bus stand of Panaji is the main bus station. The state owned bus services of states Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka operate from this station. These buses connect cities in Goa to in and out of the state Goa. Super deluxe A/C buses are available from Mumbai (580 km) and from Bangalore (650 km). It will cost around Rs 1500-Rs 2000. Sea route is another way to reach here. Shipping services from Mumbai to Panaji are available. Vacation cruises are offered by some tourist companies for enjoying the marine life of Goa.

Photo Gallery

Basilica de Bom Jesus- Old Goa

Inside The Cathedral

St.Francis-Xaviers-Body

Goa BomJesus Nave, Interior view towards altar

Basilica of Bom Jesus close view

Basilica of Bom Jesus Side View

  Camels Taking Rest It Is Located 10 km east of Panaji, along the Mandovi river, is the town of Old Goa.The Basilica of Bom Jesus is the most famous of all the churches in Old Goa.

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The ‘Silicon Valley of India’ (Bangalore)

Amazing Silicon Valley. The ‘Silicon Valley of India’ is one of the modern cities of India. It is the city leading in information technology. Bangalore (officially Bengaluru) lies in the state of Karnataka, India. It's the capital of Karnataka. The buzzing city has over 8 million people and counts as the third most populated city in India. Bangalore has a pleasant climate throughout the year. Hence, people love to live in Bangalore. The houses of technologies and their headquarters make Bangalore stand two steps ahead of most of the cities in India.  The GDP’s rate of Bangalore city is increasing, which states the town to be one of the developed cities of India. The home for billionaires and millionaires has forged the area to be an expensive city. It is the destination for the educational field as Bangalore city is sufficient with educational and research institutions. People around the world choose Bangalore to secure their further studies and career.  Elegant city of concretes  The tall buildings, city lights, and highways with jammed traffic in Bangalore amaze the visitors every time they visit there. Bangaloreans have a high lifestyle. Bangalore has a high literacy rate of 78.21%. The city has a lot of opportunities and optimism to provide. Bangaloreans are pretty friendly, far-sighted, and positive people; that’s what makes this place full of joy and positivity. For Bangaloreans, fashion and culture both go hand in hand. They are the fashion divas and dappers who love partying hard for late hours. And in the same way, they do nurture their culture and tradition. You will be astonished to find out how they are balancing both. If you find Bangaloreans lined up in a queue for pooja and artis early in the morning and the other day you find them throwing parties at Pub enjoying till midnight. Well... just take a deep breath and don’t panic!! It's a Bangalorean thing!! The pleasant weather, beautiful places, and welcoming people in Bangalore tempt travelers around the world to make ‘Bangalore’ a destination to visit in one’s lifetime. Here is some handy information for you to know about Bangalore and Bangaloreans before you wrap up your bags and head for the journey!! Bangalore food and culture Bangalore is a city of diversity.  People from different religions: Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikhs, Buddhist, Jain, and others dazzle the city. Multi-languages like: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, English, etc are spoken there. However, the city has more population of Hindus. The city observes one of the oldest festivals known as ‘Kagara Shakotsav’ or ‘Bengaluru Kagara’.  Also, Diwali is worth experiencing in Bangalore. The sky lit up with colorful crackers, houses decorated with lights and diyas and people sharing salutations and happiness with each other will just fill your heart with joy. Apart from that, Bangaloreans are great fans of food. They like experimenting with new tastes. You will find foods very affordable to the most expensive and with varieties in Bangalore. And without a doubt, it is very tasty and hygienic. Are you a foodie and love traveling?? Then don’t spare your time just thinking!! Bangalore awaits you. Just the choice is yours where you want to eat and relish; under an open sky or luxurious restaurants. Bangalore will never offend you with taste and hospitality wherever you decide to stop by and bless your tummy with delicious foods. If you crave food and adore the beauty of cultural diversity.  So, indeed! Bangalore is a place for you.  Eight foods you must try on the streets of Bangalore: - ‘Mangalore Buns’ for sweet lovers. - ‘Bhaji with filter kaapi’ if you love rain and love to stroll at dusk. - ‘Kebabs and Rolls’ , a quick snack to devour your hunger. - ‘Momos’, the most trending and famous food with great taste. - ‘Donne Biryani’, bestest biryani you’ll ever taste.  - If you have a sharp taste in food and love to eat spicy food then you have to go with ‘Samosa Chaat’. - Having a tough restless day? Refresh yourself with cold ‘Lassi’. - A meal is incomplete without a sweet dessert. ‘Kulfi Falooda’ is a great choice to win.  Bangalore and Music The crazy music lovers in Bangalore will just blow your mind. You will be amazed to see how intense and ‘happy-go-lucky’ Bangaloreans turn into when it comes to exploring music. Bangaloreans music taste varies from classical to jazz, Jazz to contemporary, contemporary to rock, rock to heavy metal, and Heavy metal to dominant. Bangalore welcomes musical events and I guess musicians desperately wait for Bangalore to invite them. Oh Yes, you heard it correctly because the enthusiastic crowd of Bangalore makes the concert a lot more special and artists crave for performing there.  Many popular  Indian musicians like Arjit Singh, Atif Aslam, Legendary Ar Rahman, Kailash Kher, Shreya Ghosal, Neha Kakkar, Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan Jha, and many more have already performed in Bangalore. You really won’t believe it but it’s true that International artists and bands like Metallica, Bryan Adams, Deep Purple, Cannibal Corpse, Akon, Lamb of God, Suicide Silence, and many others have already stagged for Bangalore, India.  Bangalore is like an open book to explore for music. The city is home to many talented Bengaluru artists like Neecia Majolly, Dr. Lakshminarayan Surbamania, Ricky Kej, Prakash Sontakke, Raghu Dixit, etc. Bangalore is the ‘Pub house of India’ as there are splendid Pub houses to chill out for odd hours enjoying a musical performance.  Pubs to hang out in Bangalore. - ABC or Arbor Brewing Company. - Skyye, City Bar. - Toit. - High Ultra Lounge. - District 6. - Loft 38. - Fenny’s. - Church Street Social. - The Biere Club. - Guzzler’s Inn. Bangalore arts and crafts When it comes to creativity; Bangaloreans seem to be quite fascinated about it. Whether it is writing or painting or sculpturing; Bangalore is the city for growing artists and designers. The town organizes several arts and crafts fairs and exhibition programs. promote India’s culture and norms and values. Bangalore holds its own International arts and literary festivals. If you are bookworms and love to hear poetry; Bangalore has saved a seat for you. Bangalore is calling you!! Besides, the town conducts fetes monthly to encourage readers and writers. The passionate painters express the idea of peace, harmony, love, and optimism through their paintings. They do paint the lifestyle of South Indians and the Gods and Goddesses they admire. Apart from that, the youths seem delighted to learn more about modern arts. We could find an artist at every corner of the streets in Bangalore. The awesome city of Bangalore has skillful hands and fiery hearts who want to change for good and set better examples for the World. Moreover, the government and people there are concerned about advancing the scope of education in different fields for better and quality education. The city has a number of art schools and museums. Eight Museums you must stop by to adore the inventions, antiques and valuables to enlighten your mind. Also, to experience extraordinary and relaxing hours. - Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum. - Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat. - The Heritage Centre and Aerospace Museum.   - JawaharLal Nehru Planetarium (It is a Science Museum dedicated to popularise Science and conduct non-formal education by Bangalore Association of Science Education). - Cauvery Handicrafts. - National Gallery of Modern Arts. - Girias Children’s Explorium. - Venkatappa art and gallery Government Museum. Bangalore and Nature The ‘Garden of India’ Bengaluru lies in the heart of the Mysore Plateau. It is also known for its greenery in India. The suitable climate and timely rainfalls have helped the city to grow enormously beautiful. The city is surrounded by lands from all directions. It has no access to seas but there are a wealth of lakes. The lake view with abundant nature will steal your heart away. A great holiday time or a romantic date or a delightful venue for dinner with your family and a special one in restaurants nearby these lakes; is the best thing to decide. Furthermore, the greenery city Bangalore is popular for its gardens and parks. The city was once called ‘Pensioner’s Paradise. The spectacular view of gardens will literally leave you in wonder. The decorations and maintenance of gardens will lure anyone to visit there and spend quality time. The town has some famous parks and gardens which have saved the floras and faunas of Bangalore. If you love nature and walking around then these parks and gardens should be added to your bucket lists. Some gardens and parks you must visit in Bangalore. - Lal Bagh Botanical Garden. - Cubbon Park. - Lumbini Garden. - Bannerghatta National Park. - Cariappa Memorial Park. Some lakes in Bengaluru one should traverse  for  fun activities, enhancing knowledge,refreshment and peace of mind. - Madiwala Lake. - Ulsoor Lake. - Hebbal Lake. - Lal Bagh Lake. - Agara Lake. - Varthur Lake. We wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday in Bangalore.  Read the full article

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The ‘Silicon Valley of India’ (Bangalore)

Amazing Silicon Valley. The ‘Silicon Valley of India’ is one of the modern cities of India. It is the city leading in information technology. Bangalore (officially Bengaluru) lies in the state of Karnataka, India. It's the capital of Karnataka. The buzzing city has over 8 million people and counts as the third most populated city in India. Bangalore has a pleasant climate throughout the year. Hence, people love to live in Bangalore. The houses of technologies and their headquarters make Bangalore stand two steps ahead of most of the cities in India.  The GDP’s rate of Bangalore city is increasing, which states the town to be one of the developed cities of India. The home for billionaires and millionaires has forged the area to be an expensive city. It is the destination for the educational field as Bangalore city is sufficient with educational and research institutions. People around the world choose Bangalore to secure their further studies and career.  Elegant city of concretes  The tall buildings, city lights, and highways with jammed traffic in Bangalore amaze the visitors every time they visit there. Bangaloreans have a high lifestyle. Bangalore has a high literacy rate of 78.21%. The city has a lot of opportunities and optimism to provide. Bangaloreans are pretty friendly, far-sighted, and positive people; that’s what makes this place full of joy and positivity. For Bangaloreans, fashion and culture both go hand in hand. They are the fashion divas and dappers who love partying hard for late hours. And in the same way, they do nurture their culture and tradition. You will be astonished to find out how they are balancing both. If you find Bangaloreans lined up in a queue for pooja and artis early in the morning and the other day you find them throwing parties at Pub enjoying till midnight. Well... just take a deep breath and don’t panic!! It's a Bangalorean thing!! The pleasant weather, beautiful places, and welcoming people in Bangalore tempt travelers around the world to make ‘Bangalore’ a destination to visit in one’s lifetime. Here is some handy information for you to know about Bangalore and Bangaloreans before you wrap up your bags and head for the journey!! 1. Bangalore food and culture Bangalore is a city of diversity.  People from different religions: Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikhs, Buddhist, Jain, and others dazzle the city. Multi-languages like: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, English, etc are spoken there. However, the city has more population of Hindus. The city observes one of the oldest festivals known as ‘Kagara Shakotsav’ or ‘Bengaluru Kagara’.  Also, Diwali is worth experiencing in Bangalore. The sky lit up with colorful crackers, houses decorated with lights and diyas and people sharing salutations and happiness with each other will just fill your heart with joy. Apart from that, Bangaloreans are great fans of food. They like experimenting with new tastes. You will find foods very affordable to the most expensive and with varieties in Bangalore. And without a doubt, it is very tasty and hygienic. Are you a foodie and love traveling?? Then don’t spare your time just thinking!! Bangalore awaits you. Just the choice is yours where you want to eat and relish; under an open sky or luxurious restaurants. Bangalore will never offend you with taste and hospitality wherever you decide to stop by and bless your tummy with delicious foods. If you crave food and adore the beauty of cultural diversity.  So, indeed! Bangalore is a place for you.  Eight foods you must try on the streets of Bangalore: - ‘Mangalore Buns’ for sweet lovers. - ‘Bhaji with filter kaapi’ if you love rain and love to stroll at dusk. - ‘Kebabs and Rolls’ , a quick snack to devour your hunger. - ‘Momos’, the most trending and famous food with great taste. - ‘Donne Biryani’, bestest biryani you’ll ever taste.  - If you have a sharp taste in food and love to eat spicy food then you have to go with ‘Samosa Chaat’. - Having a tough restless day? Refresh yourself with cold ‘Lassi’. - A meal is incomplete without a sweet dessert. ‘Kulfi Falooda’ is a great choice to win.  2.Bangalore and Music The crazy music lovers in Bangalore will just blow your mind. You will be amazed to see how intense and ‘happy-go-lucky’ Bangaloreans turn into when it comes to exploring music. Bangaloreans music taste varies from classical to jazz, Jazz to contemporary, contemporary to rock, rock to heavy metal, and Heavy metal to dominant. Bangalore welcomes musical events and I guess musicians desperately wait for Bangalore to invite them. Oh Yes, you heard it correctly because the enthusiastic crowd of Bangalore makes the concert a lot more special and artists crave for performing there.  Many popular  Indian musicians like Arjit Singh, Atif Aslam, Legendary Ar Rahman, Kailash Kher, Shreya Ghosal, Neha Kakkar, Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan Jha, and many more have already performed in Bangalore. You really won’t believe it but it’s true that International artists and bands like Metallica, Bryan Adams, Deep Purple, Cannibal Corpse, Akon, Lamb of God, Suicide Silence, and many others have already stagged for Bangalore, India.  Bangalore is like an open book to explore for music. The city is home to many talented Bengaluru artists like Neecia Majolly, Dr. Lakshminarayan Surbamania, Ricky Kej, Prakash Sontakke, Raghu Dixit, etc. Bangalore is the ‘Pub house of India’ as there are splendid Pub houses to chill out for odd hours enjoying a musical performance.  Pubs to hang out in Bangalore. - ABC or Arbor Brewing Company. - Skyye, City Bar. - Toit. - High Ultra Lounge. - District 6. - Loft 38. - Fenny’s. - Church Street Social. - The Biere Club. - Guzzler’s Inn. 3.Bangalore arts and crafts When it comes to creativity; Bangaloreans seem to be quite fascinated about it. Whether it is writing or painting or sculpturing; Bangalore is the city for growing artists and designers. The town organizes several arts and crafts fairs and exhibition programs. promote India’s culture and norms and values. Bangalore holds its own International arts and literary festivals. If you are bookworms and love to hear poetry; Bangalore has saved a seat for you. Bangalore is calling you!! The town conducts fetes monthly to encourage readers and writers. The passionate painters express the idea of peace, harmony, love, and optimism through their paintings. They do paint the lifestyle of South Indians and the Gods and Goddesses they admire. Apart from that, the youths seem delighted to learn more about modern arts. We could find an artist at every corner of the streets in Bangalore. The awesome city of Bangalore has skillful hands and fiery hearts who want to change for good and set better examples for the World. Moreover, the government and people there are concerned about advancing the scope of education in different fields for better and quality education. The city has a number of art schools and museums. Eight Museums you must stop by to adore the inventions, antiques and valuables to enlighten your mind. Also, to experience extraordinary and relaxing hours. - Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum. - Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat. - The Heritage Centre and Aerospace Museum.   - JawaharLal Nehru Planetarium (It is a Science Museum dedicated to popularise Science and conduct non-formal education by Bangalore Association of Science Education). - Cauvery Handicrafts. - National Gallery of Modern Arts. - Girias Children’s Explorium. - Venkatappa art and gallery Government Museum. 4.Bangalore and Nature The ‘Garden of India’ Bengaluru lies in the heart of the Mysore Plateau. It is also known for its greenery in India. The suitable climate and timely rainfalls have helped the city to grow enormously beautiful. The city is surrounded by lands from all directions. It has no access to seas but there are a wealth of lakes. The lake view with abundant nature will steal your heart away. A great holiday time or a romantic date or a delightful venue for dinner with your family and a special one in restaurants nearby these lakes; is the best thing to decide. Furthermore, the greenery city Bangalore is popular for its gardens and parks. The city was once called ‘Pensioner’s Paradise. The spectacular view of gardens will literally leave you in wonder. The decorations and maintenance of gardens will lure anyone to visit there and spend quality time. The town has some famous parks and gardens which have saved the floras and faunas of Bangalore. If you love nature and walking around then these parks and gardens should be added to your bucket lists. Some gardens and parks you must visit in Bangalore. - Lal Bagh Botanical Garden. - Cubbon Park. - Lumbini Garden. - Bannerghatta National Park. - Cariappa Memorial Park. Some lakes in Bengaluru one should traverse  for  fun activities, enhancing knowledge,refreshment and peace of mind. - Madiwala Lake. - Ulsoor Lake. - Hebbal Lake. - Lal Bagh Lake. - Agara Lake. - Varthur Lake. We wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday in Bangalore.  Read the full article

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Three Artists Selected for BMW Art Journey Shortlist

Portraits of Julian Charrière, Astha Butail, and Lin Ke courtesy of BMW.

BMW announced on Wednesday the three artists shortlisted for the fifth edition of the BMW Art Journey, a travel scholarship awarded to artists from each edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong and Art Basel in Miami Beach.

Astha Butail, Julian Charrière, and Lin Ke have each been nominated for their presentations at Art Basel in Hong Kong’s Discoveries sector, with Bangalore’s GALLERYSKE, Berlin’s DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, and Shanghai’s BANK, respectively.

Over the coming weeks, the artists will propose trips that they believe would bolster their artistic practices to the BMW Art Journey jury. This edition, the jury was comprised of Asia Art Archive’s Claire Hsu, Kochi-Muziris Biennale founder Bose Krishnamachari, the Lenbachhaus’s Matthias Mühling, the Guggenheim’s Alexandra Munroe, and the M+ museum’s Pauline J. Yao.

There are practically no restrictions on what their journeys could entail, according to BMW’s Head of Cultural Engagement Thomas Girst. Only “no submarines, no space travel, and no war zones,” he quipped. The journeys also must be at least 200 kilometers in length and at least two weeks in length because, as Girst said, “What if an artist says I want to travel one centimeter in their studio every day?”

Thus far, BMW Art Journeys have seen Samson Young travel across five continents over two months to record the sounds made by famous bells and Abigail Reynolds travel to the sites of destroyed libraries scattered across China, Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkey, Italy, and Egypt.

At last year’s edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, Young presented an augmented reality walk inspired by his journey. At this year’s fair, Reynolds presents an installation of sculptures and moving image works that are obscured by metal screens or other means, reflecting the difficulty the artist herself encountered in accessing many of the former library sites on her list.

In the cases of Young and Reynolds, the art journey led directly to artistic output—and particularly in the case of Young, who will represent Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale this year, a significant increase in attention to his practice. But Girst said that output is by no means required as part of the scholarship.

“They don’t even have to produce a body of work. Sometimes you travel and then it has an impact 10 years later,” he said. “We don’t want to put the pressure on the artists.”

He said this approach originates from BMW’s internal approach. “Creative freedom is as important to us and our engineers and designers as it is to artists. It’s the only way you can do anything meaningful in the cultural realm,” he said.

Installation view of Astha Butail’s work on view at GALLERYSKE’s booth at Art Basel in Hong Kong, 2017. Courtesy of Art Basel.

Who among the three nominees will have the chance to travel—and where they will go—will only be revealed in May or early June. But the artists’ diverse presentations at Art Basel in Hong Kong give some clues as to what they may have in mind.

GALLERYSKE took a particular risk in showing just one booth-spanning work by Delhi artist Butail at the fair. Gallery founder Sunitha Kumar Emmart said that in doing so, “you have to accept that even if you sell it you’re not going to break even.”

The work is comprised of 322 frames in various geometric shapes, which house striped, hand-woven muslin stretched to match their shapes. It takes as its jumping-off point a traditional ritual used to cleanse a space, she said, and traces how oral narration has developed over time. The environment created is meant as “a contemplative space,” Emmart said.

At DITTRICH & SCHLECTRIEM’s booth, Charrière presents the results of his own journey to the Bikini Atoll. Centered on a pile of coconut cannon balls (the cannon for which was recently confiscated in a raid on the artist’s Berlin studio), the booth also features photographs taken while in the former atomic test site, the negatives of which were bleached in some places by the radiation still present in the island’s sand.

Installation view of Julian Charrière’s work on view at Dittrich & Schlechtriem’s booth at Art Basel in Hong Kong, 2017. Courtesy of Art Basel.

“His work is all about a post-apocalyptic scenario where humans have been eliminated from the Earth; he thinks about what we might leave behind,” said the gallery’s André Schlechtriem.

Charrière, who is currently in Antarctica for the first biennale there, co-organized by Nadim Samman, was previously included in a BMW publication about artists who incorporate travel into their practice, something that Schlechtriem says sits at the core of the artist’s work.

“Sometimes we get a phone call to the gallery from a satellite phone saying that he needs two helicopters,” he said.

Such are not the concerns of BANK founder Mathieu Borysevicz, whose artist and BMW Art Journey nominee Ke’s work typically inhabits and explores the digital realm instead of the planet’s farthest reaches.

“His computer is his studio, his studio is his computer,” said Borysevicz of the 33-year-old artist’s work.

At Art Basel in Hong Kong, Ke brings this metaphor to life, having enlarged his desktop screen to the scale of a room in a wall-spanning print, where icons for image files hang as might half-finished canvases in a painter’s studio. Borysevicz said the files are mostly images pulled from the website, Contemporary Art Daily, which catalogues noteworthy exhibitions. Ke “was using it to understand contemporary art world propriety, our expectations of what art is supposed to do,” said the gallerist.

Installation view of Lin Ke’s work on view at Bank’s booth at Art Basel in Hong Kong, 2017. Courtesy of Art Basel.

In another work on view, the artist has recorded himself on a webcam while recounting portions of a 1960s Star Trek episode. In the episode, a group of organisms developed superior intelligence after having been forced to burrow underground, only to find that intelligence itself becomes a trap, “like a narcotic,” Ke says in the work.

Borysevicz noted that an art journey for Ke could look like a hacked, digital path through data collection centers more so than a traditional, physical trip. Whether that could fit into the art journey framework remains to be seen.

—Alexander Forbes

from Artsy News