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Ministry of Culture

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Ministry of Culture English

Science museums for mass education deals with the activities that science museums do to popularise the science among the mass. Science museums arrange different educational activities like mobile science exhibition, …


Ministry of Culture English

The video is a recording of a lecture delivered by the art historian Dr. Partha Mitter at Lalit Kala Akademi on 10th December, 2008. The title of the lecture was …


Ministry of Culture English

The video is a recording of a session of the National Art Week of New Media organized by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi in collaboration with Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. …


Ministry of Culture English

"The Asiatic Society, Kolkata pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary. This video presents the virtual exhibition organized by the Asiatic Society, on the …


Ministry of Culture Hindi

This video describes our five senses organ, eye, ear, nose, tongue, skin. How images are seen through our eyes, what is colour blindness, differing vision, are describes here. How do …


Ministry of Culture English

The video is a presentation on the dying art of stone handicraft that is practised in the district of West Medinipur in West Bengal. In the area of Berpahar which …


Ministry of Culture Hindi

The video is a presentation from the festival of thumri music, Thumri Rang, organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in Kolkata in 2008. The presentation features a performance by the …


Ministry of Culture English

The video presents a shehnai performance by the eminent Hindustani classical musician Ustad Bismillah Khan. Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) is one of the most recognizable faces of Hindustani classical music. …


Ministry of Culture English

The video is a presentation on the Konyak tribe of Nagaland. The film shows us glimpses of their village lifestyle, traditions, customs and belief systems. The film documents the life …


Ministry of Culture English

The video documents the popular art form of Kalighat painting. The Kalighat painting emerged as a unique style of painting in the 19th century Kolkata. These paintings recorded the fast …