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Get Hookah-ed! 
Chuck those cigarettes, hookah's the new flavour. Experts give you the lowdown on the hows and whys of hookah smoking...
World Land Marks
British Isles, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Giant's Causeway, Stonehenge, Holland, Windmills, Denmark, Little Mermaid, Austria, Brandenburg Gate, Cologne Cathedral, Switzerland, Matterhorn, Statue of William Tell, Notre Dame Cathedral, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, St. Peter's Basilica and Square, Colosseum, Grand Canal, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Alhambra, Granada, City Walls of Avila, La Mezquita, Cordoba...
World Land Marks II
Parthenon, Meteora Rocks, Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Statue of Lenin, Leningrad, Wailing Wall, Great Mosque, Cheops' Pyramid, Great Sphinx, Sahara Desert, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Mount Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Gateway Arch, Golden Gate Bridge, Niagara Falls, Canadian National Tower, Machu Picchu, Easter Island Statues, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Parliament House, Brasilia...
World Land Marks III
Ayers Rock, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Waitangi Meeting House, Geysers, Temple of Heaven, Terra Cotta Warriors, Great Wall, Potala Palace, Mount Everest, Taj Mahal, Agra, Palace of the Winds, Jaipur, Mount Fuji, Daibutsu, Nara, Angkor Wat, Mount Popa, Shwedagon Pagoda, Wat Arun, Grand Palace Thailand, Borobudur, Famosa, Merlion, Rizal Monument Manila, Kampung Ayer...
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Indian
Festivals
Indian festivals like Lohri Festival, Pongal, Bihu, Makara Sankranti, Basant Panchami, Holi, Rath Festival, Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, Sivaratri, Ramanavami, Buddha Jayanti, Indian Festival Mahavir Jayanti, Onam - festival of Kerala, Ram- lila, Indian Dussehra & Indian
Diwali...
Indian
Food
Indian Rotis and Pilaus, Indian Cooking, Indian Culinary Traditions, Mughlai Rumali Roti, Tandoori Roti, Dal Makhani, Raitas, Tandoori Chicken, Puranpoli, Makai Ki Roti, Lassi, Pachadis, Papads, Kormas, Nargisi Kofta, Roghan Josh, Delectable Desserts...
Indian National Parks & Indian Sanctuaries
Indian Dachigam National Park, Indian Ranthambore National Park, Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Jim Corbett National Park, Gir National Park, Indian Kanha National Park, Bandhavgarh National Park, Indian Nagarhole National Park, Kaziranga National Park...
 
Basic Hindi Learning Lessons
Basket Making in India
Weaving of baskets in India is an art as ancient as the making of pottery...
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Gupta Period [Early Fourth to Mid-Eigth
Centuary A.D.] - Ancient Indian Costume [Large File, ~ 200 KB in size]
Fa-hein, a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled in India, wrote an account of his travels
in which he noted...
Kushan Period
[130B.C. - A.D. 185] - Ancient Indian Costume [Large File, ~ 200 KB in size]
The Kushans established their empire in the first century AD and...
Satavahana
(Andhra) Period [200 B.C. - A.D. 250] - Ancient Indian Costume
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The people of the Deccan were a hybrid race, a mixture of the aboriginal Dravidians and
foreign invaders...
Mauryan and Sunga Periods [321 -
72 B.C.] - Ancient Indian Costume [Large File, ~ 150 KB in size]
Chandragupta Maurya lived in considerable state. In the processions held on festive
occasions...
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Terracotta
In Bihar, Bengal and Gujrat, there are a number of festivals in
which women create clay figures to propitiate gods and goddesses. The Shyama Chak festival
of Bihar is one of its kind. Even deepavali necessitates the making of clay figures of
Goverdhan, almost all over India...
Pottery
Surahi, Kumbhar, Handi, Alwar Kagzi. Objects for domestic use have
certain well-known centers: Kangra, Andreta in Himanchal Pradesh, Jhahhar in Haryana,
Pokhran in Rajasthan, Meerut and Hapur in U.P., Khanpur in Maharashtra, Kutch in Gujrat,
Birbhum in Bengal and Manipur for their distinctive styles of pottery...
Indian Textiles
The indian centers known for very finally woven cotton were in
Bangal, Varanasi, Chenderi, Uppada, Mangalagiri and Venkatagiri of Andra Pradesh...
Silk
Weaves and Brocades
Kancheepuram, Tanjore and Kumbakonam, are important textile centers
of Tamil Nadu. Sangarneddy & Dharmaswaram in Andhra Pradesh, Kolegal & Molkalmoru
in Mysore are also famous silk-weaving centers...
Bandhani,
Tie and Dye Technique
Rajasthan has a number of tie & dye centers famous are the
Jodhpur, Jaipur & Sikar. Sikar produces some finest bandhanis & produce a range of
patterns, made for different communities in Rajasthan, Haryana & Punjab...
Tribal Weave
of The North-East
Tribal areas of the North-Bengal, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura,
Mizoram...
Shawls and
Woolen Weaves
Pashmina Shawl, Kani Shawl, Jamewars, Tooji, Amli, Dhussa, Jama,
Jal, Dorukha, Aksi, Kalu Shawl...
Folk
Embroideries
About Dharaniya, Dharkala, Chandarva, Chakals, Mochi Bharat, Ari
Bharat, Pako Bharat, Phulkari, Bagh, Khaddar, Chamba Rumal, Kanthas, Gavanti, Kasuti,
Lingam, Shankh from Kutch, Saurashtra, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal,
Puri, Karnataka...
Tie and
Dye of Threads
Patan used to export patolas. In Cambodia, Thailand & Indonesia
patola played an important part in rituals & ceremonies & became integral part of
their lives...
Hand-Printed,
Dyed and Printed Fabrics
In Gujarat state, Mandvi, Dhamadka, Mundra, Anjar, Jamanagar &
Surendernagar, Jaitpur, Ahmedabad, Vadodara & Deesa are important centers of
printing...
Wood Work
in India
Today wood has become scarce and extremely expensive. Gone are the
days when wood was available in plenty. Temples, houses, were built in wood....
Bamboo, Reed
and Fibres
North-Eastern region of India, comprises of Assam, Manipur,
Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura, has the finest example of
combined cane and bamboo work...
Indian
Metal Work
Indian metal work - Water-vessels, lotas, large serving plates,
thals, table-tops, large dowry boxes from Gujarat, & innumerable other forms are made
by alternately heating & hammering the metal...
Performance
Tradition: Aesthetics and Practice
We bow to the noble (sattvika) Lord Shiva whose bodily movements and
gestures (angik) are the entire universe, whose speech (vachika) is all the written words,
and whose costume and make-up (aharya) are the moon and the stars...
Performance
Tradition and Modern Theatre
It created great rupture from the performance tradition of more than
two thousand years which began with the dialogue hymns of the Rigveda and developed with
the two great epics - the Ramayana and the Mahabharata...
Martial
Arts and Performance Tradition
Why should martial art lead to the evolution of performance forms or
inter-act with a form in its evolution and vitally influence its nature and design of
movements?
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All About Books
The last words of a Danish priest of the second century, Ben Joseph Akita, who was burnt
alive along with a book of wisdom he had compiled are worth remembering here: "The
paper burns, but the words fly away."
All About Books [II] - VEDAS
The Vedas do not preach any religion or dogma. They are the records of the inner
experiences of the Rishis...
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