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Apr 2, 2023

Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama 1993
-Anime film co-produced by Japan & India ,directed by Koichi Sasaki,Ram Mohan,Yugo Sako (also producer of the film).
Although it was banned in India during the #BabriMasjid riots. later dubbed in Hindi and aired on DD National.
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Here are the controversy

The Indian Express misinterpreted Yugo Sako's "The Ramayana Relics" documentary and published that he was making a new Ramayana. Soon thereafter, a protest letter based on the misunderstanding from the Vishva Hindu Parishad was received by the.....

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Japanese Embassy in Delhi, which said that no foreigners could arbitrarily cinematize Ramayana because it was the great national heritage of India.

After the misconceptions were cleared, Yugo Sako proposed the idea of an animated Ramayana to the VHP and the government.

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Mar 11, 2023

SAPT RISHI /7 Sages
According to the Shatapatha Brahmana, these 7 r the 'authors' of the Vedic hymns. Their names r, Gautama, Bharadvaja,Vishvamitra,Jamadagni, Vashishtha, Kashyapa, and Atri. Here inscribed in the 'takri'script as the 'sons of Brahma,' r these very names.
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They sit surrounding a small pile of smoldering ash, much in the tradition of Shaivite saints.
1. At the center in the top row sits Jamadagni, with his head thrown back, and his hair reaching his thighs. With the right hand he holds a long rosary.

2. Next to him in the clockwise direction is Gautama, clad only in a loin-cloth, with prodigiously long nails, and similarly long hair under his armpits. He holds his hands above his head, in a tight, clasping posture.

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Nov 25, 2022

This Thread for all Ear Ornament lovers

#TamilNadu ear ornaments are generally of 22-karat gold. Goldsmiths there have developed an elaborate ear-ornament tradition, which often necessitates piercing the ear at several locations and distending the hole mode in the earlobe
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to accom modate them. The attention to detail evident in these ornaments, some of which are very small, illustrates the local goldsmith's outstanding skill

These drawings have been culled from thirty of the many volumes of Village Survey Monographs,published in connection
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with the Census of India, 1961, Madras (Tamil Nadu),60, part 45, 1963, in which, among other subjects, the traditional jewelry worn by women and men in each of the villages studied is discussed and illustrated. Ear ornaments have been arranged in horizontal rows by concepts.
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Nov 24, 2022

Amrita-Samudra Manthana-THREAD
Dhanvantari, the heavenly physician, emerged with a pot containing the amṛta, the heavenly nectar of immortality. Fierce fighting ensued between the devas and the asuras for its possession. Asuras took Amrit from Dhanvantari and ran away...
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chased by Devas.
The devas appealed to Vishnu, who took the form of Mohini, a beautiful and enchanting damsel. She enchanted the asuras into submitting to her terms. She made the devas and the asuras to sit in two separate rows, distributing it among the devas, who drank it.
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An asura named Svarbhanu disguised himself as a deva and drank some nectar. Due to their luminous nature, the deities of the sun and the moon, Surya and Chandra, noticed this disguise. They informed Mohini who, cut off his head with her discus, the Sudarshana Chakra.
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Nov 23, 2022

This lithograph 'Birth of Shakuntala' was the first print to be produced in the Ravi Varma Fine Art Lithographic Press on 12th July 1894. The painting alongside that belongs to a collector now, is of the exemplar used to create this lithograph.
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Do note the print line below the lithograph - it states 'Competition Edition'.
Though it is not from the 'first' lot created in the press, this print is definitely more than 100 years old.
Do keep in mind that there is never an 'original' lithograph. It is a print, and they
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were produced in lots of 100 or more from each exemplar created.
The second and third lithographs created in the Ravi Varma Fine Art Lithographic Press were those of Goddess Lakshmi and Saraswati.
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Jul 30, 2022

THREAD on Rukmini Varma's Painting
In a time when India was still a land of splendid Maharajahs and fabulous courts, Rukmini Varma was born in 1940 into one of its most ancient royal houses, with an unbroken dynastic lineage of over 1200 years.
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🎨The Rape of Rambha,1980s

Titled Her Highness Bharani Tirunal Rukmini Bayi Tampuran, Fourth Princess of Travancore, Her great great grandfather, Raja Ravi Varma, is considered the Father of Modern Art in India.
🎨 Woman with fan
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Her grandmother, the last Maharani of Travancore, was a patron of many artists, while her father trained under court painters in the 1940s. Rukmini never studied art formally but developed her own style of realist painting through the 1960s
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🎨Nala Damayanthi Early 1980s

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