2248 IST, Sunday, July 20, 2014 
Culture/Tourism
Listen to the sound of music at Delhi art fairBy Shilpa Raina
Birds chirping, funny conversations, melting glaciers, clinking coins and sounds of construction - all these and much more reverberate at the ongoing India Art Fair here, with some artists using sound art as their medium of expression. |
Leaving a mark - the street art festivalBy Debesh Banrejee/ The Indian Express
A life-sized image of a child peeps from the side of a building, as if hiding from someone. A few metres away, on the side of a three-storey building, there is a large mural of a grey cat playing with a ball of wool. |
Delhi University’s history to be brought alive on Valentine DayBy VIJETHA S.N./ The Hindu
Delhi University has something very special planned for students this Valentine’s Day — a grand story replete with fighting, blood, incarceration and, of course, some romance. |
Coffee fest returns to Bangalore with aromaBy Fakir Balaji
As the country's coffee capital, Bangalore is, after a four-year hiatus, hosting again the India International Coffee Festival (IICF-2014) from January 23 to spread the brew's aroma. |
Literary pondering: Is a writer conscious of the audience?By Shilpa Raina
Should a writer think of his or her audience while at work? Or should the focus be the narrative? Questions like these were discussed by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri and a bevy of international authors at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) here Saturday. |
Delhi a step closer to earning World Heritage City statusBy MADHUR TANKHA/ The Hindu
Delhi's quest for earning the prestigious tag of a World Heritage City begins with the Ministry of Culture sending a full-fledged dossier to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by January-end. |
Breaking stereotypes, Muslim women discuss sexuality at JLFBy Shilpa Raina
When women writers from Islamic countries discuss sexuality and erotic poems, taboos and male dominance, and mull over breaking free from conservative norms, the audience is bound to be large. |
Sun to light Signature Bridge in DelhiBy Richi Verma/ Times of India
The state government of Delhi is looking into the possibility of installing solar lighting on Signature Bridge. The project is already a decade in the making and likely to be completed by the year-end and now the effort is to make it energy-efficient. |
IIT Delhi, School of Planning and Architecture to help draft heritage bylawsBy Richi Verma/ Times of India
Under pressure to speed up the process of notifying heritage bylaws for the over 3,600 centrally protected monuments in the country, the culture ministry has notified four institutions as expert heritage bodies to assist in the drafting of heritage bylaws. The four institutions include Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture and IIT-D. Till now, the only institution identified as an expert heritage body under the amended ASI Act of 2010 was Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. |
India's President's house to get new museum, studio aptsBy Sidhartha Roy and Ritam Halder/ Hindustan Tiimes
The more than 80-year-old Rashtrapati Bhavan and the 350-acre Presidential Estate on which it stands is about to get a facelift to restore it to the way Edwin Lutyens envisaged it in the 1920s. It's the biggest restoration project undertaken since the estate was opened in 1931, and plans are afoot to make itmore accessible to the public. |
India is often described as a tourist paradise. From the mighty snow-capped Himalayas of Kashmir in the north to the shimmering seas of Kanyakumari in the south, the verdant deltas of Sunderbans in the east, the world's largest protected eco-and-game reserve to the historic forts and shrines of Rajasthan to the west – India has everything that the footloose traveller would like to sample. 
