Modi govt’s new Yuge Yugeen has set off lamentations about the loss of the old National Museum. But the institution did not always do justice to its role as the custodian of India’s patrimony.
Central Public Works Dept has got nod from Heritage Conservation Committee, aims to restore heritage bldg which houses vital ministries such as home & finance to original 1930s design.
Tasneem Z Mehta, managing trustee and honorary director of Mumbai’s Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, called it a good project in need of more professional management.
The National Museum building was designed by the first Indian chief architect of Central Public Works Department, GB Deolalikar and constructed by Bhagwat Singh.
A part of Modi govt's Central Vista project, Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum will open in three months. But work on moving the artefacts at the National Museum has not yet begun.
On 21 September 1959, PM Jawaharlal Nehru delivered an address at a public function organised by the Indo-Iranian Association in Tehran during his four-day visit to the country.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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