The folk hand embroidery of Kutch is done in cotton thread on cotton cloth. Yellow, saffron, white, purple and green are favourite colors. The work is done with darning and herringbone stitches and the motifs include those named above along with the sunflower, mango shoots and creepers. Glitter is produced by liberal use of mirrors … Read more
Indian Embroidery Stitches The Indian embroidery stitches belongs to no special caste, community or sex. The art is hereditary like so many other skills in India. It is passed down from father to son or from mother to daughter. Indian embroidery uses many different stitches as well as variations of the basic stitches. Indian Running Stitch … Read more
Traditional Indian Embroidery Traditional Indian embroidery achieved its beauty and luminosity as much from the embroiderer’s skill as from the quality of the materials used. The natural color used for dyeing the threads distinguishes the work done in India from that done anywhere else. Indigo, madder and kermes (tiny insects which yield a crimson colorant) … Read more
Sitar Musical Instrument The emergence and rise of Sitar as one of finest instrumental expressions of Classical Raga music, its nuances and rhythmic development constitute a really fascinating story. No particular person, not even Amir Khusro as the legend goes, invented the Sitar. The instrument is the clear result of a systematic process of evolution … Read more
Types of Local Self Government There are mainly two types of local self-governments in India. The Village local self-government and The Municipal self-government. Village local self government The village local self-government is the village or gram-Panchayats. The Zilla Parishad also belongs to this category. Gram Panchayat is an excellent example of Democratic set-up of India. … Read more
Gujarat has been renowned for the quality of its hand embroidery. The richness of design and variety of hand embroidery stitches used Gujarat is explained by one of the legends pertaining to Krishna. On his way to Dwarka, Krishna fought and killed a demon who had imprisoned a thousand women from various parts of India. … Read more
Materials for Hand Embroidery The materials used for Hand Embroidery in India includes cotton, silk, tusser, wool etc. Wool has been traditionally used as hand embroidering material both for garments and rugs and carpets. Such work was done in Kashmir where craftsmen covered the whole surface of the material with embroidery stitches to produce article … Read more
Bishnupur Gharana The other Sitar gharana in Bengal is a branch of the famous Vishnupur gharana of Dhrupad singers. Shi Gopeshwar Banerji apart from Dhrupad singing was also a Sitar player. The more famous players were Surendranath Banerji Surbahari, Satyakinkar Banerji and Gokul Nag. Also read, The Jaipur Sitar Gharana.
Relationship Between Democratic Decentralization And Local Self Government Democracy has been accepted in modern world as the best form of Government. The Local Self-government is an inevitable part of this democratic administrative system. It may be called the lying-in-room of democracy. In fact, the local self- government has no parallel. Democratic decentralization is a lofty … Read more
Principles Of Panchayati Raj System In West Bengal There are three basic principles of the Panchayati Raj system in West Bengal. The first principle is the decentralization of administrative power. So long, all rural developmental works were done in a centralized manner by the bureaucrats. The Panchayati Raj system has decentralized the administrative power. The … Read more