What many of us don’t know is that we continue to lose our history today through the illicit trade of artefacts and the private market for antiquities.
Two temple-linked bronze artefacts have reached Delhi from the Smithsonian, while a third Nataraja will return after a US exhibition loan ending in 2028.
The Central Antiquity Collection, housing over 3 lakh artefacts at Purana Qila since 1974, is being moved to the Red Fort due to poor storage conditions. ASI has a ‘vision’ for it.
Antiquities are mix of ones returned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and some confiscated by US authorities from NY attorney general’s office. Most are from eastern India.
The report, tabled in both houses of Parliament Monday, highlights challenges in documentation, identification, safeguarding and repatriation of antiquities & lost cultural wealth.
For years, the beauty marketing around weddings has assumed that beauty begins and ends with the bride. Everyone else is an accessory. But that idea feels outdated now.
Bitcoin is up about 23% this week, on track for its best weekly gain since March 2023, as US Treasury bond buybacks lower yields and boost appetite for risk assets.
Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.
At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.
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