By admin on August 12, 2010
Even as a magisterial panel probes the alleged theft of items designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, another piece of Chandigarh’s heritage is set to go under the hammer in London. Bonhams is planning to auction a collection of furniture designed by Jeanneret, second cousin of internationally renowned architect Le Corbusier, as [...]
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By Amandeep Madra on August 8, 2010
The sheets of water which devastated Leh town and its outskirts also considerably damaged one of the Sikhs’ holy shrine, Pathar Sahib. The historical gurdwara, which enshrines the memory of the first Sikh master Guru Nanak Dev’s visit to the then, nearly unsurmountable region about 500 years back, is located about 25km away from the [...]
Posted in Architectural, Material | Tagged damage, floods, gurdwara, Guru Nanak, Leh, Sikh |
By admin on August 8, 2010
The Centre has given its nod for the restoration and preservation of 250-year-old building, Pothimala, and its murals.A high-level team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of the Chandigarh circle led by its superintendent archaeologist VC Sharma along with members from drawing, engineering, chemist and other wings visited Pothimala this morning and carried out [...]
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By Amandeep Madra on June 14, 2010
Often called the ‘Manchester of India’, few people – both residents and outsiders – know that the city has a large number of significant historical structures that can be major tourist attractions but instead languish in a state of neglect. One such noteworthy example is Christ Church, which dates back to the 1830s. Adjacent to [...]
Posted in Architectural, Material | Tagged christ church preserving, conservation, Ludhiana, Mughal, Sikh |
By hema on March 15, 2010
Did the sixth Sikh guru leave behind a few weapons on the outskirts of Kailey village near Ludhiana during his halt during his ‘dharam parchar’ tours of the region in 1621? The recovery of some sharp-edged weapons and a ‘chur’ during digging in the vicinity of the village gurudwara, built in memory of Guru Har [...]
Posted in Cultural, Material | Tagged Guru Har Gobind, Ludhiana |
By Amandeep Madra on January 10, 2010
Gurpreet K. Maini writes a review of India’s leading heritage conservation NGO, on its 25th anniversary in the Sunday Tribune. If today graffiti is diminishing our monuments, particularly the unlisted ones, there are fewer ‘pan’ splurges; they are no longer open-air urinals or defecating hubs, we owe it to the pivotal catalyst INTACH, a concept [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural, Material | Tagged conservaion, India, INTACH |
By Amandeep Madra on January 4, 2010
A former Project Director at The Smithsonian’s prestigious National Museum of American History, George Jacob, has been named director of the Khalsa Heritage Complex in Anandpur Sahib reports the Midland Daily News. The Khalsa Heritage Complex is one of the largest museum complex in India currently in advanced stages of construction. Smithsonian trained Jacob, an [...]
Posted in Cultural, Material | Tagged Anandpur Sahib, Khalsa Heritage Complex, Museum, Smithsonian |
By Amandeep Madra on January 3, 2010
A JACKET with ancestral links to Norfolk which was expected to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000 at auction failed to sell. Items once treasured by the Maharajah Duleep Singh, who bought the Elveden Estate near Brandon in 1863, went under the hammer at Lyons and Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh. A pair of crimson shoes [...]
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By admin on November 29, 2009
Members of the Institute of Sikh Studies today called upon the state government and Sikhs to work towards preservation of the Sikh heritage.The members of the institute met here today for a conference on the “Battles of Banda Singh Bahadur: Strategy at Chappar Jhiri.” One of the aims of the conference was to suggest to [...]
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By admin on November 29, 2009
Auctioneers will on December 9 auction heritage items belonging to Maharajah Duleep Singh The first item under the hammer will be a velvet jacket that belonged to Maharajah Deleep Singh along with matching shoes described as ‘foliate decorated gold braid raised work on a crimson velvet ground’ These items remained the property of Maharajah Duleep [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Auction, Duleep Singh, London |