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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicIndian Museum

Topic: Indian Museum



Pune’s Jainism museum is so huge that even 2 days isn’t enough to view it

Academicians took 12 years to collect, distill and present the information. The visitors, the founder said, will have to put in just as much effort to understand what the museum stands for.

What’s missing in the new Humayun Museum of Mughal history? A key decade of India

What’s missing in the Humayun Museum in New Delhi, jointly curated by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Archaeological Survey of India, is as important as what is present.

India’s archaeological site museums need major makeover. Vadnagar must set an example

Many Harappan sites in India still don’t have a museum. Visitors are lost without a trained guide or adequate information to educate them.

Qutub Minar turns into Burj Khalifa every night. It becomes a screen for Indian culture

From the success of Tamil Nadu's Odanthurai village to Meghalaya’s Kongthong, the show, designed by tech company Tagbin, captures empowering stories.

Bengaluru Museum of money is like a luxury showroom. It’s not just about city’s new wealth

The Rezwan Razack’s Museum of Indian Paper Money started with a banned note from Pakistan.

PM selfies to Gita pods, Tagbin wants India to do away with stuffy museums

Museums in India are usually not on people’s must-visit lists. An IIT grad’s Gurugram company is changing that.

PMs’ Museum bedazzles and entertains. But it doesn’t tell us who we are

There is something to be said about the Narendra Modi-era museums and his push for big-is-best, gizmo-laden, dazzling interactive spaces for museum-starved Indians.

Sexual harassment, fraud, FIRs: How ex-director Rajesh Purohit let down the Indian Museum

Rajesh Purohit, who was transferred from his job as Kolkata’s Indian Museum director six days ago, tarnished the image of India’s oldest and largest museum.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.