Karakattam Dance Karakattam is a form of folk dance performed at festivals, conferences, roadshows and primarily at Mariamman festivals. It is one of the many creative traditions that owe their existence to Mariamman, the rain goddess. While the dance form…
Lingaraj temple All over in Bhubaneshwara, Lingaraj temple is considered to be the most ancient and the largest of all the temples. The temple has been named so, as to denote the king of the Lingam which is in the phallic…
Natufian culture Mesolithic culture of Palestine and southern Syria dating from about 9000 BC. Mainly hunters, the Natufians supplemented their diet by gathering wild grain; they likely did not cultivate it. They had sickles of flint blades set in straight…
Triratna of Jainism Triratna of Jainism – Triratna, (Sanskrit: “Three Jewels”) Pali Ti-ratana, also called Threefold Refuge, in Buddhism the Triratna comprises the Buddha, the dharma (doctrine, or teaching), and the sangha (the monastic order, or community). One becomes a Buddhist…
Tala-Maddale The traditional art of ‘talamaddale’, a variant of Yakshagana theatre. Unlike the Yakshagana performance, in the conventional ‘talamaddale,’ the artists sit across in a place without any costumes and engage in testing their oratory skills based on the episode chosen.…
Pre-historic India And The Harappan Culture There are no written records are available for the prehistoric period. However, plenty of archaeological remains are found in different parts of India to reconstruct the history of this period. In India, the prehistoric…
Sungas founder of the Sunga dynasty was Pushyamitra Sunga, who was the commander-in-chief under the Mauryas a most important challenge to the Sunga rule was to protect north India against the invasions of the Bactrian Greeks from the northwest Greeks…
The Vedic Culture Around thisvedic culture period, the speakers of the Indo-Aryan language, Sanskrit, entered north-west India from the Indo-Iranian region. As they were mainly cattle keeping people, they were mainly in search of pastures. By 6th century B.C., they occupied…
Imperial Cholas After the decline of the Sangam period, the Cholas became feudatories in Uraiyur. They became prominent in the ninth century and established an empire comprising the major portion of South India. Their capital was Tanjore. also extended their sway…