HARSHINI VAKKALANKA, The Hindu, November 4, 2013 | Read the full article here >> It is as though a piece of their world has been brought onto the walls, mounted onto wooden boards to be taken away to the homes of people whose lives are so vastly different from those in the Warli and Madhubani regions of … Read more
Mysore, October 28, 2010 Warli folk paintings, according to art critic L. Shivalingappa, are paintings from the Maharashtra region. Warli is the name of the largest tribe found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai. “Warli comes from the word ‘warla’, which means a piece of land,” he explains. Warli art was first discovered in the … Read more
How the textiles and techniques of our native people are entering mainstream fashion and global ramps. Tribal India was never cooler. While a small bunch of revivalist desi designers are modernising rural textiles from the subcontinent, international labels and celebrities can’t get enough of our heritage weaves and patterns. Whether through Ikat printed pants on … Read more
Nelumbo nucifera (Sacred Lotus) – the National Flower of India. Find out more national and state symbols of India here >> We strongly believe that knowledge is the first step towards any kind of change. Thus, we created this Biodiversity Of India website. The BOI website, part of the Project Brahma Initiative, is an open-source, community driven project, much like Wikipedia, where anyone … Read more
Balu Diwa is a young Warli artist from the Thane district of Maharashtra. He spent a week since Christmas at Tejgadh and had dialogues and interactive workshop with tribal children at Tejgadh. The clip sent captures the Warli life as represented in Warli paintings, presenting their traditional way of life as well as presenting the … Read more