Aipan, a traditional art form with which the Kumaonis particularly women decorate their houses to welcome an auspicious occasion like Diwali or any other event like marriage ceremony, now moves beyond ...

The art form is used on walls and floors in attractive motifs using ‘geru’, a saffron-red mud colour collected from forests and rice starch, locally called ‘Biswar’ paste. UTTARAKHAND: She was barely ...

In an unprecedented move to conserve traditional art and offer those practising it a steady source of income, the Uttarakhand government has decided that paintings depicting the life of the area, ...

Aipan is a folk design art form, drawn by women in red and white colour outside their homes on auspicious occasions like weddings, house-warming, festivals. Every occasion of event, has a different ...

Traditionally, Aipan starts and ends with a dot, right at the centre of the drawing, that symbolizes the centre of the universe. Everything that you see outside the centre, has originated from that ...

The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from ...

Vashundhaar — a devised folk performance based on Aipan (a traditional folk art specifically made by women of Uttarkhand) directed by Amit Saxena was staged at the Sammukh Auditorium, NSD. The play ...

Aipan is a folk design art form, drawn by women in red and white colour outside their homes on auspicious occasions like weddings, house-warming, festivals. Every occasion of event, has a different ...