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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
TopicIndian heritage

Topic: Indian heritage

Tourism is helping protect India’s intangible heritage. It took 10 yrs to get here

Every craft goes through cycles of change. In the absence of documentation, newer craftspeople can lose touch with how their forefathers practiced their craft.

Union minister G Reddy vows to safeguard India’s linguistic heritage

The Minister highlighted the significance of including languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which has expanded from 14 to 22 languages over time.

Chettinad festival is already boasting results. Money, movie shoots & more conservation

The festival’s organisers were inspired by the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. They want to put Chettinad on the international map.

The Class of Taxila — how Mortimer Wheeler set up the first Indian archaeology school

In ‘Archeology and the public purpose’, Nayanjot Lahiri writes on the gap between govt departments & universities bridged by The Taxila School of Archaeology.

ASI set to excavate Purana Quila again in decades-long hunt for Mahabharata link

ASI insiders say it is ‘unusual’ that the 16th-century Purana Quila is being dug up second time in just over a year.

Bringing back chaupadh, ganjifa, pachisi: Great Indian pastimes long before XBox, PS4s

Mumbai just hosted a meeting of collectors, geeks on board games of India, which have gone from mainstream to niche. ThePrint explores the fun past times.

On Camera

India has to move on now. Engage with ‘Nooton Bangladesh’

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, in a sense, tasted her own medicine. The International Crimes Tribunal, the special court she instituted for...

The day Dharmendra ‘died’

Naidu matches Jagan’s Rs 13L crore investment playbook, with a ‘speed of doing business’ caveat

Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.