By News Editor on June 8, 2011
Chandigarh based creations find way in auction houses of various countries in past few years
Posted in Material | Tagged Artcurial, Bonhams, chandigarh, Christie's, Heritage, heritage furniture, Panjab University, Pierre Jeanneret, Sothebys, Wright |
By admin on February 27, 2011
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The Punjab government Saturday announced a Rs.1 billion (Rs.100 crore) project with Unesco to prepare a professional policy for cultural preservation in the state. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by principal secretary for tourism and culture Geetika Kalha and Unesco director Armoogum Parsuramen here in the presence of Punjab [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural, Material | Tagged conservation, Restoration, UNESCO |
By News Editor on January 25, 2011
Soon pilgrims visiting the Golden Temple may not have to wait for a special occasion like the Gurpurb to catch a glimpse of rare artefacts and invaluable gifts kept in the shrine’s ‘toshakhana’ (treasure), as the SGPC is contemplating to put them on public display permanently. The issue came to the fore after former Rajya [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Amritsar, Golden Temple, SGPC, Sri Darbar Sahib |
By News Editor on January 17, 2011
The Shalimar Gardens, a world heritage site and historical monument of Mughal era which once called Royal Pleasure Garden is fast losing its beauty and attraction owing to dilapidated condition of its walls and floors. During a visit of the garden by this scribe on Monday, it was witnessed that most buildings situated in the [...]
Posted in Architectural, Material | Tagged Lahore, Punjab Archaeology Department, Shalimar Gardens, UNESCO, world heritage site |
By News Editor on October 9, 2010
The Sikh Empire had its own currency for the first time under the iconic Sikh general, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur. The use of these coins was carried on by subsequent kings of Punjab and reached its epitome under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who laid the foundations of Sikh Empire. Before Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, the use [...]
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By Amandeep Madra on September 29, 2010
How would you like to have access to around 200 years of newspaper articles about Sikhs and the Punjab? The United Kingdom Punjab Heritage Association’s new website www.archive.ukpha.org brings you closer to that ultimate on-line reference source. This is the first step taken to create an electronic web-based archive highlighting the extensive body of material [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Archive, London, UKPHA |
By News Editor on September 28, 2010
A set of chain armour belonging to the Sikh Empire that was kept by The Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham but never displayed, will be up for public display after some restoration work. This set of chain armour, which includes helmet, breast, back plates and gauntlet, was used by soldiers of Sikh army of the [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Anglo Sikh War, Maharaja Duleep Singh, Sikh armour |
By News Editor on September 21, 2010
Phulkari is a technique of embroidery, prevalent in Punjab state in India and Pakistan. Literally speaking, it refers to ‘flower working’. Nowadays, this is more relevant to shawls and head scarves. The use of phulkari among women in Punjab has become more or less restricted to certain occasions only. The principal reason behind this is [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged bagh, Phulkari, punjab, Punjab Culture |
By News Editor on September 6, 2010
There was a time when Punjabi villages were completely self-dependent. Crucial items of daily use– like tokri (baskets) and gohle (pots) were widely manufactured locally. The baskets in particular were made out of the wood of Mulberry trees (shahtoot), which were a staple part of the landscape of pre-modern Punjab. These trees, crucial to a number of [...]
Posted in Cultural, Material | Tagged basket, folk tradition, Heritage, punjab, village life |
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 [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Auction, chandigarh, Le Corbusier, London |