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The Art That Fire Makes Permanent: Varanasi Enamelling and Its Three Thousand Year Global Journey
There is a colour that changed the history of art on three continents. It is called the Purple of Cassius and it connects a working studio in Varanasi to the painted e...
The Story of Mysore Silk: From a Caterpillar's Thread to a Royal Saree
Hold a single silk cocoon in your palm and you are holding a thread close to a kilometre long, spun by a caterpillar in just a few days. Unwind thousands of them, weav...
Loom to Lac, Six Days Through the Weavers, Farmers and Silversmiths of the Deccan
About This Episode Sam and Taylor trace the full route of 5 Senses Tours' newest private trail, Loom to Lac, six days from Kalaburagi to Hyderabad that puts travellers...
Varahamihira: The Ujjain Astronomer Who Predicted Earthquakes, Catalogued 101 Comets and Found Underground Water 1500 Years Before Modern Science Knew How
In the 6th century CE, in the city of Ujjain in what is now Madhya Pradesh, a scientist sat down to write an encyclopaedia. Not an encyclopaedia of abstract philosophy...
Pune Ganesh Festival: The Five Pandals That Helped Birth a Nation and Why Lokmanya Tilak Was the Greatest Political Genius of Colonial India
In 1893 the British colonial administration was watching Pune carefully. Large public gatherings were viewed with suspicion. Political meetings were monitored. Any org...
