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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicIndian Museum

Topic: Indian Museum

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

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.