Indore and Bhopal top the list Under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Indian Government has instituted the Swachh Survekshan Awards which ranks participating cities on key parameters every year. The results of the “Swachh Survekshan 2017” have been released, where 500 cities of India would be ranked on the parameters of waste collection, sweeping and transportation; municipal … [Read more…]
Sanchi The World Heritage Site at Sanchi, is a remarkable specimen of Buddhist art and architecture from the early Mauryan period (c. third century BC to twelfth century AD). Emperor Asoka laid the foundations of a religious centre at Sanchi. He erected the Great Stupa (Stupa 1) here after redistribution of mortal remains of Lord Buddha … [Read more…]
Roopankar, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal : Roopankar is the only museum of its kind in India which houses contemporary folk and tribal art together with urban art. Its objective is not just a historic collection of works of art, but also creative participation in the art scene emerging in the last decades of the century. Roopankar … [Read more…]
The principal of Jahangiria School Bhopal, Affak Hussain, used to stay in his own house located behind the Masjid Madar Domini (located at Ibrahimpura, ahead of the Madina hotel). His son Anas Hashmi asked his friend to shift to the outer room of this house, after consulting his father Affak Hussain. However this room did … [Read more…]
Jigar Moradabadi was the nom de plume of Ali Sikandar, one of the most famous Urdu poets of the 20th century and a celebrated Urdu ghazal writer. Jigar Moradabadi belonged to the classical school of ghazal writing and was a mentor to Majrooh Sultanpuri, who became a prominent lyricist in the Indian film industry and … [Read more…]
Sometime in the year 2011, at a meeting of bureaucrats, archaeologists, anthropologists and sociologists at Bhopal, Bhil painter Bhuribai asked, “Shouldn’t a tribal museum be made by the tribals themselves?” In response Shriram Tiwari, Director, Culture Department, Madhya Pradesh, formed a team of tribal scholars and artistes, determined to build something rooted in the tribal imagination, … [Read more…]
Bhopal A Prayer for Rain, a film on the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, was declared tax-free in Madhya Pradesh by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “Such tragedy should never take place in any city of the world and development should never take place at the cost of human being’s existence,” he said after watching … [Read more…]
Artist Pete Dunne’s Untitled. Dunne was living in a small town less than 100km from Bhopal at the time of the disaster Tweeter session from 3rd December 2014 tinyurl.com/n8r49dz In 1917, a merger of four companies in USA creates the Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., makers of carbon rods for street lights, electrodes for furnaces … [Read more…]
Part Four: Mass Tort John P. Coale, lawyer, behind his desk at his 22nd Street office. Dudley Brooks/The Washington Post via Getty Images John Coale was in the back of a taxicab, riding down Washington, D.C.’s Massachusetts Avenue. The radio was on, the news announcer relating details of a catastrophic gas leak in India at … [Read more…]
Part Three: Post Mortem Dr. Satpathy ordered that each unclaimed body be photographed and identified by number. Dec. 3, 1984. Stones tapping at the window. What time is it? Certainly past midnight. The sound is loud enough and persistent enough to rouse Dr. D.K. Satpathy from his slumbers. Fie. The man throwing these stones is … [Read more…]