June 24, 2024: 100 life-size elephant sculptures made by artisans in Tamil Nadu, India, arrive in Newport, R.I., via the Port of New York — the first stop on a year-long, cross-country journey.

Yes, many temples offer rituals and ceremonies that visitors can participate in, such as aarti (prayer ceremonies), prasad (offering to the deity), and abhishekam (ritual bathing of the deity).

Kanchipuram, the City of a Thousand Temples, attracts tourists and pilgrims with its magnificent temples, rich history as the Pallava capital, and spiritual significance as one of the Moksha-Puris ...

HYDERABAD: When you walk around the towering pillars of a temple, it’s hard not to think about the effort that went into sculpting every curve of those magnific ...

But documenting the water tanks proved difficult when he first began. The remote areas of Punjab weren’t yet mapped by Google, he explained, so he visited villages and hoped for the best.

Significance of artifacts and sculptures: People are connected through art; it familiarises us with our genesis and ancient Indian heritage. We, as individuals, drive meaning through art, hence ...

Indian painting : from cave temples to the colonial period / Joan Cummins Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Cummins, Joan 1965-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Subject Museum of ...

NEW DELHI -- For centuries, the Venkateswara Temple has stood in the hill town of Tirumala, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, an avatar of the ...

Visitors will be able to get close to — and even touch —100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants which are beginning a cross-country journey. The Great Elephant Migration traveling art ...