http://www.boloji.com Boloji is the world's biggest Articles Database. en-us Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:01 GMT http://www.boloji.com/specials/rss.xml Indian Solutions ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12376 Culture and ideology are conveyed in conscious and unconscious ways they radiate out from us even when we are seemingly silent and inactive. The culture we accrue from birth gathers its own unique patina with age and continues to take shape whilst we are on life s journey. 28-Jun-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12376 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12052 It is Ugadi today the New Year in AP Karnataka. It is called Cheti Chand in Sind. This ias called Gudi Padwa in Goa and Maharashtra. It is also celebrated in Punjab Hatyana Himachal Pradesh and Manipur under different names. Ugadi Pachhedi is the speciality on this day. It consists of six ingredients such as raw mango neem jaggery chilli salt tamarind with different tastes represnting six moods or emotions of man. 22-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12052 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11919 Virginity and chastity are the imagined virtues strictly assigned to the fair sex in many societies. Why such stringent conditions were imagined and imposed on the fair sex by the male chauvinists 19-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11919 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11882 Indian culture and its evolution through centuries 12-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11882 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11735 One cannot quite ignore the Greeks when discussing Sambhu Mitra and that not merely on account of his immortal production of Oedipus Rex Raja Oyedipaus . Every now and then the Greek notion of Fate keeps rearing up its head in the play Sri Sambhu Mitra as well. The play is all about an uncompromising pursuit of purity and perfection sitting in a world where vulgarity rules the roost. Ultimately it is Fate that decides how much one must succumb to pressures that lead a person astray. 17-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11735 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11492 To view eighty paintings mostly landscape at Rumale Art House is to literally walk into a wooded patch with large shady trees. To find the way back one has to leaf through memory and recognize even if faintly the arboreal growth in the city landscape. 27-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11492 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11401 I don t pretend to be an aficionado of the Carnival one of the general public I have a preconception of it as a celebration in costume and dance of West Indian culture given as it were an August Bank Holiday weekend to release a whole year s pent up feelings of that community on the streets of Notting Hill. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11401 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11391 Vijay Tendulkar is known for his concern for burning social problems and anomalies of Indian society and mindset. Silence The Court is in Session is one of his most famous and widely appreciated plays. A group of actors are enacting a mock-drama actually a mock trial of Ms Benare. The pettiness of conversation among actors suggests that drama-activity has cheapened itself quite a lot in recent times in India. 27-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11391 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11177 The joy and fascination of singing comes like a sea-wave when you sing in a choir and takes you away. We sing songs from different parts of the world and every language has language brings its own rules regulations and pecularities. Russian words as in Tabie pajom are pronounced in a gutteral manner with a lot of sch thrown in and the Israeli song Hora Jerusalem with a lot of volume whereas the song from Botswana Sana Sananina demands a tip of the tongue hissing intonation. 05-Jul-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11177 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11161 Sounds when set into tune becomes music. These musical sounds give pleasure and happiness to the listeners. This is an attempt to understand the evolution of music which is an integral part of Samaveda. 01-Jul-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11161 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11064 Concerts do enrich cultural life in the hamlets and towns and contacts are established between choirs according to sympathy and friendship and they invite each other to sing together or as guest choirs. The traditional comradeship between the music and choir associations vereins and the feeling of togetherness grows with time when choirs travel throughout Europe and more and more European choirs should exchange and invite choirs to sing feast be-merry-together and take home wonderful memories and experiences which can be reciprocated with the passage of time and thus move towards a European Union in which its member countries and communities share their cultural and traditional heritage together. 05-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11064 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11027 G ndlingen is a small scenic town among the vineyards of Kaiserstuhl on the way to the border town of Breisach near France. We the men s choir from Freiburg-Kappel were invited to sing at the 140th anniversary of the men s choir in G ndlingen on May 21 2011 at the Malteser Hall. The hall was almost full when we arrived and the other guest-choirs were from the Kaiserstuhler S ngerrunde Chorgemeinschaft Breisach MGV Eintracht Ihringen Chorgemeinscaftt Umkirch MGV Vogelbach-Malsburg and MGV Buggingen. 23-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11027 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10798 Tattooing has had a long and sometimes dark life particularly in Japan. The practice of punitive tattooing has existed for at least two thousand years globally. Japan was the last country to abolish it in 1870. As elsewhere the Japanese covered these marks of shame with decorative tattoos. The decorative designs became more elaborate as their popularity increased largely as a reaction to strict sumptuary laws. Tattooing was repeatedly abolished without effect. Even today it is illegal to display tattoos publicly in Japan. 01-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10798 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10797 The art of Tattoo has been around for thousands of years. The styles and reasons for tattoo have varied from individual to individual as they have from society to society. Some tattoos were prepared for simple ornamentation others done for religious beliefs and others still for reasons known better to their wearers. Tattooing has existed in one form or another across the earth since time immemorial and the popularity of tattoo art is most likely to continue for centuries. Though the fundamental concept of tattoo has been constant throughout the history the styles and reasons for tattoo have evolved along with man s own development. 01-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10797 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10777 Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a captain s knock and gutsy Gautam Gambhir steered the innings after early jolts to hand India their second World Cup title after 1983 beating Sri Lanka by six wickets at the overflowing Wankhede Stadium Saturday April 2 2011. 02-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10777 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10705 When the people living in Germany s Baden say adieu to winter they go about greeting each other. You are greeted with the word Narri and are expected to reply with an energetic Narro. For the fifth season is the time for revelry and merry-making. After it s over we go about with the usual long faces for the rest of the year... 19-Mar-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10705 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10667 Fasnet is the fifth season in Germany Swriterzald and Austria during which the people perform old customs and rites in an attempt to drive out the long cold winter which is personified in the form of a Fasnet-figure which is hung on a tree Fasnetbaum till the celebrations are over and then is burnt and given a decent funeral.Then begins the period of fasting from Ash Wedneyday till Easter. 19-Mar-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10667 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10409 Talent is a gift from God. What I do with that talent is my gift to Him. This is a Chinese proverb oft quoted by Rachael MacBean who has made her talent for puppetry a medium of communication entertainment education and therapy over the last 26 years bringing about the social empowerment of her group of performers at the same time. 09-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10409 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10220 . 23-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10220 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10219 . 23-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10219 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9786 He was father and Guru of world famous Sarod player and one of the finest musician of this country Ustaad Ali Akbar Khan and very divine SurBahar player Shrimati Annapurna Devi Pt.Hariprasad Chaurasia is a pupil of Annapurna Ji .Many of the most successful musicians like Sitar player Pt.Ravishankar Sarod player Pt.Nikhil Banerjee flautist Pt.pannalal Ghosh were his disciples. 31-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9786 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9783 Today amidst the great Indian urban sprawl the pulsating beat of the dandiya is ebbing Holi is losing its colour and the festival of lights Diwali some of its traditional sparkle and shine. As with everything else in life change is the only constant and as for Diwali celebrations although the festive spirit is largely prevalent established practices have given way to adaptations that keep pace with the ever-evolving urbane ethos. 30-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9783 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9662 Makam considered to be the most auspicious asterism for the birth of a girl means fortune happiness wealth and charity. True to this the saying goes Makam piranna manka. May the maid born on makam asterism come out from the granary is yet another common rhyme in Travancore. To understand its meaning one should bear in mind the fact that the makam asterism is the birthday of rice. There live in our midst people who have cultivated rice till half a century ago with nostalgic memories of their participation in the celebration of this festival every year. 03-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9662 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9661 An ancient Indian name for rice dhanya may also mean any corn or grain but it primarily refers to paddy. A grain of paddy is dhanya ka m. Dhanya contains starch or carbohydrate and means sustenance for the human race. Food is essential for living. Life lifetime livelihood are jivanam. Cooked rice used as food in general is choru odana figuratively it is livelihood. Choru kalayuka an idiom means deprive a man of his means of living. A place where boiled or cooked rice is available is called heaven. Rice is life. Life breath is prana. In India rice is often called prana - the breath of life. 03-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9661 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9296 Bauls recognise music as their only religion. They don t conform to any traditional social religious or even musical norms. They comprise a unique cult of free-thinkers most of them ascetics who have no worldly bonds holding them back. They and their ancestors have developed a genre of folk music that is known by the community s name as Baul music . They are wandering poets and singers who are in the vanguard of the struggle for social change 12-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9296 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7070 While the Gupta period marked the zenith of Buddhist art and culture it is also responsible for coalescing myriad deities and figures from the Vedic and pre-Vedic ages into the three chief figures of the Hindu pantheon Shiva Vishnu and Brahma. From this age on all Hindu art and architecture were dedicated to one of these three deities. Aberrations and regional sects whenever powerful enough were integrated into this pantheon at regular intervals to give modern Hinduism its mystifying array of deities gods and goddesses. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7070 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7010 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7010 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6876 A Thangka is not just a beautiful painting but a religious testament of Buddhist scriptures and teachings. The historic origins of Thangka Paintings can be traced back to as early as 3rd century AD where Buddhists and Hindu artisans in Nepal not only painted illuminated manuscripts but also began to depict deities and natural scenes in metal works and wall- paintings. The designs of the early Thangka paintings were simple in expression with the deity depicted in the centre surrounded by figures of lesser importance set in subtle colours. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6876 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6826 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6826 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6823 In contrast to the Indus Valley culture Buddhism was the earliest of Indian religious and cultural beliefs to undertake works of art of any scale and significance. With the decline of Vedic culture of which little if any cultural work remains Buddhism has left behind a large amount of art objects architecture organized religious orders and monastic discipline. While the life of the Buddha 563-483 BC did not make any overtures toward the production of art the dissemination of Buddhism from India to Southeast Asia to China and then to Japan ensured that Buddhist art is as varied as it is prolific and that it constitutes a significant part of the art heritage of ancient Asia. 11-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6823 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6788 There must be a reason why there s no word for monsoon in Hindustani barsaat means simply rain and saawan is the month in which the monsoon arrives. Yet the word monsoon itself comes from the Arabic mawsim appropriate season. And there must be a reason why to the English a fine day means a bright one sans clouds and in India mothers bless their daughters saying may there never be dhoop sunshine on you . They are clearly not wishing a Persephone-like Hades for their daughters - the phrase just refers to the suffering caused by extreme summer heat. 25-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6788 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6715 The great French composer - Claude Debussy 1862-1918 - was one of music s greatest originals and a composer whose range makes convenient pigeon-hole terms such as impressionist or pantheist relevant but limiting. He composed a wide variety of pieces for the piano often expressing his visions of nature and evoking scenes of vivid imagery. The music of Debussy is an eternal enchantment to anyone who has a few minutes to listen to. 08-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6715 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6714 According to Partha Mitter Art generally means sculpture and painting and often includes architecture but human artifacts may embrace a wider category of material remains that include the decorative and minor arts such as jewelry pottery metal and wooden utensils and even toys. It is here in the absence of much concrete architecture and built remains that the artefacts of the Indus Valley Civilization or the Harappan culture are of interest as art and it is in this way that we will study them. 22-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6714 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=5900 When she begins with the first few notes of a ghazal thumri or bhakti sangeet romantic dance-oriented or devotional composition the sound patterns seem to form a recognisable silhouette. And they seem to evoke distinct responses among the audience because the music of Shruti Sadolikar means different things to different people. For the young and enthusiastic listener for instance it is her depth and husky intonation that is appealing. For the discerning connoisseur on the other hand it is a recall of the past of ustads of yesteryears as Sadolikar s renditions carry with them a venerable baggage. 26-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=5900 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=772 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=772 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=770 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=770 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=769 Like Zhou hundreds of millions of Chinese go home or travel with their families during the Spring Festival. A gigantic holiday is tough on transport systems and the tourism industry. The country s highways transport two billion people and its railways 156 million during the 40-day peak travel period around the Spring Festival . 08-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=769 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=767 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=767 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=765 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=765 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=764 The tales of Krishna Ganesha and others are narrated in detail - or rather in miniature detail. The threads of the story are embroidered with as much creativity as any vocal raconteur could evoke. But what is interesting in this traditional art of narrative is that scenes - such as those of the hunt or of Radha and Krishna - cannot be heard but only looked at. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=764 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=761 The term fairy tale brings to mind a children s story but in truth these tales are parables of history. It is a spiritual teaching that calls out to us from the ancient past. It is a lesson that will not die even though it has been suppressed repressed persecuted attacked and twisted for centuries. 18-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=761 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=760 A rich collection of 101 embroidered artefacts crafted by rural women and urban professional embroiderers in Pakistan and India between the 18th and 20th century form an ongoing exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Titled Color and Light Embroidery from India and Pakistan the exhibition takes visitors on a colorful journey into the world of fiber where threads deftly present a tapestry of the socio-economic cultural and political milieu of their times 22-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=760 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=757 Water purifies the body and the mind. It rejuvenates the spirit. It liberates the psyche. The waters of the Ganga River can even erase karma from the past and give moksha or cessation from the cycle of birth and death. From ancient times Hindu texts have extolled the therapeutic spiritual and erotic power of water. Most religious texts recommend an early bath around 4 o clock which is considered the Brahma muhoratham or most auspicious time. The Vedas recommend that bachelors should have a bath once a day married people twice a day and saints three times a day . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=757 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=756 Rooted in customs traditions and folklore the land of Orison is a home to many handicrafts and art forms such as Patachitra appliqu work terracotta brass work and not the least among them is the silver filigree work of Cuttack locally known as Tarakashi. This delicate craft is especially renowned for its unparalleled intricacy. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=756 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=753 The Ramayana continues to be interpreted by different artistes and scholars in manifold creative ways. Anurupa Roy s multimedia play About Ram recently staged at the India Habitat Centre New Delhi projects Rama s inner dilemmas - his tormented soul as he goes to rescue Sita from Lanka overtaken by doubt once he sees her unable to accept her because she might have changed. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=753 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=750 Sudabeh Mortezai 39 is a filmmaker with a mission. She would like to see more and more people talk about themselves on screen. Her theme is Iran and her genre the documentary. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=750 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=748 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=748 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=744 The Epic Age in India came later than the times of the Vedas and Upanishads. However if we speak of a Vedic culture today and if our Acharyas raised the flag of Vedanta by their intuitive scholarship of the Upanishads it was all due to the epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata that gave a focal point for the nation. What is even more interesting is that these two epics have been the cause of much of the literature in India down the centuries. They provide not only the storylines but also phrases and symbols in Indian literature. And for life too. 18-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=744 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=742 Music is a fact of life that we take for granted. A child starts crooning tunes long before learning to speak. From the beginning to the end of our life we come across appreciate and listen attentively to the form of music that appeals to us most. And unless one has an extremely inquisitive disposition one naturally ignores investigation into something that permeates our daily routine from start to finish 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=742 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=738 Bharat a spectacular photo exhibition organized by the Toronto-based not-for-profit organization World Heritage Project WHP featured 42 never-before-viewed images of India captured by some of world s top photographers - including Steve McCurry Mary Allen Mark and James Nachtwey . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=738 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=737 . 18-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=737 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=736 In my leisurely hours I have often ventured to locate something about myself which is not utterly commonplace and can be linked to me as the signature tune of my personality a habit a bias a slant in my interest. I am a music addict an avid listener my appetite never satiated. Every time the humdrum calls of daily living stifle the music and oblige me to turn around to the sawdust demands of domesticity. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=736 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=735 The first scene of Bombay Dreams is reminiscent of a high school play with all the explanation about Bombay film industry the show does get warmer and interesting as it progresses. The combination of A. R. Rahman music and Andrew Lloyd Webber producer strikes a note that is interesting . 07-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=735 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=732 What is art Is it a purely utilitarian object with some trappings of decoration or is it pure aesthetics which has absolutely no purpose whatsoever than to appeal rather hedonistically if you will to the senses This debate has raged amongst art circles from the earliest documented periods of art history from the seminal essays of Alois Riegl to the lines and periods drawn up by institutions and art academies of the 19th and 20th centuries. This distinction between art and artisanship between the artist and the artisan is also coincidentally one of the chief divisions that separate South Asian or Indian art from its counterpart in the West. 08-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=732 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=731 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=731 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=730 When I go to the theatre the first thing that I notice is the lively atmosphere of talk and laughter around me. There is an excitement that comes with not knowing what to expect from the stage in front of you when the large curtain finally opens. As you settle down to your seat you read through the programme looking for an insight into what kind of a story is about to unfold. Then the lights are dimmed and the noise fades into an attentive silence. Soon you find yourself engrossed as the characters come alive and take you along their journey. But a good theatrical event is more than just story-telling . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=730 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=728 The first rays of the sun cast a metallic glow on the blue-green crater of one of the world s oldest volcanoes - Gunung Sumeru - in Indonesia. The belief is that the process of creation began from the rock-head that spews billowing columns of lava-laced smoke throughout the year. It is the seat of the Hindu deity of creation - Brahma and is one of the early Hindu linkages between India and the Southeast Asian nations. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=728 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=726 World music is a term that may refer to the indigenous classical forms of various countries of the world. It may be said as the term itself talks of the music of the world. In the past eras it was more seen as the coming together of different music of different cultures of the ethnic world mostly in reference to non-western ethnic music including modes and scales of the ethnic root with instruments of ethnic origin like sitar didgeridoo table etc. Gradually the face of the world changed with globalization including mutual trade business travel etc. and world music came to be known as the music of each nook and corner of the world s cultures and societies 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=726 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=724 For centuries musical legacies have crossed geographical boundaries says world music guru Laurent Aubert citing how Hindustani classical got its Persian influence and how the Beatles opened the window to Indian notes. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=724 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=723 Creativity is an important element of human efforts for better existence for efficiency at work for luxury and recreation at leisure for diversification to fulfill a natural instinct or curious element of human behavior. Creativity is a challenge to the mind. It speaks all about unlimited and striking potential. Creativity is the sole reason that human beings are distinguished from other species and it is the nucleus behind the development and rise of human race. Be it technological areas or social arenas all the progress has been possible because of multidimensional creative pursuits of people. Technology economy and society all are interlinked through artistic creativity . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=723 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=722 The idea of moksha has become unique to Indian thought and culture but still remains somewhat difficult to comprehend through the methods of western analytical philosophy. The misconception that moksha implies an escape from reality is a common one. This happens if we are working within a predominantly Christian lexis. The Vedas and the Upanishads make us understand that as long as we live in this world we must be guided by our dharma which is a moral principle of the universe but once we discharge our dharma we should seek the celestial world where moksha becomes the guiding star. 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=722 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=717 The spread of the Upanishads to the West took centuries. Sanskrit was truly a foreign language for most scholars in Europe and the Upanishad was practically unknown to Europe until the 17th century. Persian on the other hand was a prevailing language and many scholars in Europe were well suited to understand this prominent language of the East of the time. Many Indians are unaware that it was a Persian translation of the Upanishads that first exposed the west by making it available in a language many were proficient in. This was the translation undertaken by the long forgotten Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh in the year 1657 . 22-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=717