Context: Abanindranath Tagore’s Birth Anniversary
Subject: Arts and culture Context: Theatre director EbrahimAlkazi, who revolutionised Indian theatre and was the longest-serving director of the National School of Drama, passed away Concept: Traditional art forms reflect the ideals of the society, its determination to survive, its ethos, emotions, fellow-feelings, and so on. Drama in itself is a complete form of arts. […]
Subject: Arts and Culture Context: Construction of a grand Shri Ram Temple slated to commence on August 5th. This has revived the history of prana pratishtha puja of the Somnath Temple by Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India. Concept: Somnath, literally translated as the Lord of Moon (Soma) houses the first of the 12 […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: Earth and water have been collected from each sacred river and important pilgrimage centre like birthplace of SantRavidas in Kashi and from Delhi’s Jain Lal Mandir and Gurudwara Sis Gunj for construction temple at Ayodhya. Concept: Ravidas of 15th or 16th century, was a mystic and poet who was one of […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister released a book titled “Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh”. Concept: The Tangams are a little-known community within the larger Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh and reside in the hamlet of Kugging in Upper Siang district. As per the UNESCO World Atlas […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: The Madras High Court directed Tamil Nadu government to safeguard the interests of traditional musicians such as those who play Thavil and lamented that the art and artistes were on the verge of extinction. Concept: Bharatnatyam Dance is considered to be over 2000 years old. Several texts beginning with Bharata […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: A Delhi court granted bail to 200 Indonesians who were chargesheeted for attending TablighiJamaat congregation allegedly in violation of visa norms and violating government guidelines issued in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. Concept: Tablighi Jamaat literally the Outreach Society, is an Islamic missionary movement that focuses on urging Muslims to return to practising […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: In Delhi, since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, one lakh meals have been served to poor and migrant laborers through community kitchen of Sikhs. Concept: It was founded by Guru Nanak in the 15th century. The practice of a free community kitchen serving food to everyone without any discrimination […]
Subject: Arts and culture. Context: The first set of five volumes of Mongolian Kanjur published under the National Mission for Manuscripts was presented to the President of India on the occasion of Guru Purnima, also known as Dharma Chakra Day, on 4th July 2020 Concept: Mongolian Kanjur, the Buddhist canonical text in 108 volumes is considered […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: Zardozi workers have been left with joblessness due to lockdown Concept: Zardozi is form of embroidery that came to India from Persia. Its literal translation, “zar” meaning gold and “dozi” meaning embroidery, refers to the process of using metallic-bound threads to sew embellishment on to various fabrics. This heavy and […]