Source: Historical Aspects of Lakshadweep by Prof Baiju K Nath Painting by NKP Muthukoya, an artist from Lakshadweep, India’s pioneering surreal painters and Kerala Lalithakala Akademi’s fellow
Moira is a village in the district of Bardez in Goa. It lies a few miles away from Mapuça, the capital of the district, and the river of Mapuça flows along its southern, western and northern sides, making its soil very fertile. The village is famous for many things but it is not their industriousness …
This Basholi style Pahari miniature painting depicts a future incarnation of Lord Vishnu as Kalki. Kalki, the blue-skinned individual, is seated with his legs folded on a low, intricately carved, four-legged stool. The stool is lined with pink cushioning, and raises the sitter a few inches off the ground signifying his importance. In this incarnation, …
The painting is an llustration of Dhola Maru. A lady in male dress seated on a camel facing a male seated on a horse. This is a love story of Marwar prince Dhola and Poogal princess Maru and deeply rooted in folklore and oral Rajasthani traditions. As the popular tradition has it, when yet a …
Swami Haridasa, a singer and poet of high order, is seated in his hermitage at Vrindavana, a verdant environment full of plants, trees, flowering shrubs and creepers. The place is a quiet one and suited best to one’s absorption in a musical performance. He is shaven-headed and has a lean body with a divine glow …
The ant and the grasshopper were best friends with very different personalities.The grasshopper would spend his days sleeping or playing his guitar while the ant would collect food and build his ant hill. Every now and then, the grasshopper would tell the ant to take a break. However, the ant would refuse and continue to …
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Once on a time there lived a Brahman who had married a wife, and who lived in the same house with his mother. Near his house was a tank, on the embankment of which stood a tree, on the boughs of which lived a ghost of the kind called Shakchunni. One night the Brahman’s wife had …
Once there was a wealthy man with two wives – the elder one, Laagee (refers to Beloved) and the younger one, Aelaagee (refers to ill-favored). Both had one daughter each. The daughter of the younger wife was Champavati. The elder wife was jealous of both Champavati and her mother. One day, Champavati goes to the rice fields and sings …
The Zoroastrians of Persia (modern-day Iran) fled to avoid forceful conversion by the Islamic invaders and landed in Sanjan, a port in Gujarat by sea (Valsad, present day name). This was following the fall of the Sassanid Empire, to seek refuge in India. Because of the language barrier, King Jadi Rana, the then ruler of Sanjan, …
