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    Rare modern Indian artworks to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in UK

    2020-09-11T11:23:52+00:00September 8th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

    A collection of never-before-seen modern Indian art, including unpublished artworks by artists V.S. Gaitonde and Ram Kumar, will be offered for auction for the first time in London by Sotheby’s auction house later this month. Assembled by the Danish couple Gunnar Hansen and his wife Inger almost half a century ago, the history of the collection is closely tied to that of one of India’s leading infrastructure businesses of the 20th century, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), for whom Gunnar worked for [...]

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      Rare Guru Nanak painting unlocked for Partition Museum fundraiser

      2020-09-07T10:56:10+00:00August 25th, 2020|iEntertainment, iGLOBAL|

      A miraculously recovered pre-Partition painting of Guru Nanak by renowned Indian artist Sardari Lal Parasher has been added on to the ongoing online art exhibition-cum-fundraiser, ‘Memories Unlocked: Partition, Migration, Identity’, organised by the Partition Museum in India to coincide with Partition Remembrance in the month of August.

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        A virtual Manch for art and artists in lockdown

        2020-09-07T12:20:02+00:00May 21st, 2020|iCommunity, iGLOBAL|

        A sector which usually thrives on in-person connections has quickly adapted to digitally connect the artist and audiences from one screen to another. A new virtual platform “Manch UK” has emerged from the pandemic, with the desire to bring artists together and share their creative journeys. Since April, global audiences are following "Meet the Artist" daily sessions presented by UK’s leading South Asian dance artists on Manch UK’s "virtual stage”. The paramount purpose of Manch UK is to connect people [...]

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          In search of innovative ways for the UK-India cultural connect

          2019-07-29T12:36:34+00:00July 26th, 2019|2019, UK Edition – July 2019|

          The director of Sampad, an acclaimed arts organisation in the UK, elaborates on the importance of promoting soft power in the UK-India Relationship. Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Laureate poet, philosopher and polymath once said when commenting on the Indian diaspora ‘ To study a banyan tree, you not only must know its main stem in its own soil, but also must trace the growth of its greatness in the further soil, for then you can know the true nature of its [...]

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            India’s Soft Power – A long shot perspective

            2019-04-23T07:09:49+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Home Page, Women's Edition – April 2019|

            We need to focus on quality, training, excellence and investment for India’s soft power to be globally recognised, asserts an Indian arts expert. India is the world’s largest democracy. India has a global presence thanks to its economically successful diaspora, a successful IT industry and its internationally loved cuisine, cinema, dance and music. Our much-appreciated multi-culturalism, religious pluralism and the heritage of yoga, Ayurveda and philosophy also play a vital role in establishing India’s soft power globally. A survey of [...]

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              UK returns 12th century stolen Buddha statue to India

              2020-03-16T09:25:26+00:00September 21st, 2018|2017/2018, UK Edition – September 2018|

              In what was held up as an example of India-UK collaboration across all sectors, Britain’s Metropolitan Police recently marked India’s Independence Day by handing back a rare buddha sculpture stolen from India in 1961. Scotland Yard returned a 12th century Buddha statue stolen from Nalanda in Bihar nearly 60 years ago to the Indian High Commissioner to the UK, Y.K. Sinha, as part of a ceremony to mark Independence Day at India House in London on August 15. The bronze statue with [...]

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