Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will release a book, ‘Emergence of Telangana,’ written by retired IAS officer A K Goel, who is presently serving as advisor to the government. The book will be released at a function to be held at Ravindra Bharathi on Friday. The book is one of the first books about TS to be released by the first chief minister after realization of the state on June 2.
Telangana is a multidimensional reality. Its evolution has witnessed each and every dimension through the vicissitudes of time.
This book attempts to narrate the whole story from ‘Birth of the Universe’ to the ‘Birth of Telangana,’ an official release said.
The initial chapters, reflecting geographical and technological aspects, would be quite familiar to scientist and engineers.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / December 26th, 2014
A motley collection of brilliant and rare maps from the 16th to the 19th century is on display at Heritage Arts in Mattancherry as part of ‘Cosmology to Cartography’, an exhibition—the first of its kind in India—jointly organised by the Hyderabad-based Kalakriti Archives and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
It showcases as many as 47 maps straddling four centuries and under ‘Jain Cosmic’, ‘Pilgrimage’ and ‘Cartographic’ categories. On display are the early cartograms produced with vegetable dye on cotton and the ones in woodcuts, copper engravings with colour or watercolour and ink on paper.
A pilgrimage map to Nathdwara temple are among the exhibits at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Kalakriti founder Prashant Lahoti collected the unusual treasure of India maps. The brightly-coloured maps present the world in many fashions: some in sync with Jain philosophy where the earth is divided into regions of the Gods, mortals and the cursed; the pilgrimage maps, on the other hand, chart out panoramic routes to Badrinath in the Himalayas or Shatrunjaya in Gujarat.
“The exhibition displays move from the symbolic to the political, and there is a dichotomy in the first, the middle and the last few,” said executive curator Vivek Nanda, who is a town planner and whose current projects include the Mumbai-Delhi corridor. “The early part of the exhibition represents a world of meaning, while the political ones are a world of order. They depict coastal towns and sea ports, which were important trading indicators.” Also on show are the first Dutch map of the subcontinent and the Middle East, and the first map of India as a single entity, made in 1822, for the directors of the English East India Company.
The first Dutch map of the subcontinent and the Middle East done in 1596.
Arts and Medicine
The famed biennale programme, in its 43rd episode on the General Hospital premises on Wednesday, saw Kochiite Charles Antony crooning songs in at least 10 languages, including Italian, English, African, Sinhala and Japanese, as he played the guitar and the mouth organ. Mr. Antony had sung a Spanish song alongside Diego Maradona during his visit to Kerala in 2012. His 80-minute performance began with Jim Reeves’ ‘Welcome to my World’. Mehboob Memorial Orchestra provided accompaniment.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Kochi / by Special Correspondent / Kochi – December 18th, 2014
