Heritage Preservation

Anchored on Kashmir’s Dal Lake, the world’s only floating post office has been delivering letters and memories for 70 years. Inside its wooden houseboat, heritage, craftsmanship, and connection come together to tell a story that still floats on.

In 1905, Krutarthsinh M Jadeja’s great-great grandfather, Thakore Sahib Verisalji Bawasaheb of Roha, built Darbargadh in Kutch. The family now offers a homestay, a farm stay experience and runs Kutch's first CBSE residential and co-ed school.

Heritage walks are great to explore cities, discover unseen corners and fall in love with history. And they are perfect for everyone -- those who grew up there and those who are on vacation. Here's our list of heritage walks you just cannot miss.

As Hyderabad’s Osmania General Hospital faces the threat of demolition, we take a look back at its legacy and significance, and how it has been witness to some remarkable milestones in the history of medicine.

Goa architect Rochelle Santimano talks about how she restored a centuries-old Portuguese home into a heritage homestay in the coastal village of Arpora.

Noor Jahan and her cousin Wajeeda Tabassum co-founded Shesrig Ladakh, an art conservation practice that restores and conserves ancient wall paintings, religious manuscripts, thangka (Buddhist scroll) paintings and metal works.

A part of everyday life in south India, Kolam art is more than a decoration. A sign of generosity, it is also a way to feed thousands

Gaatha, an organisation established by three National Institute of Design (NID) graduates, preserves the work of traditional craftspersons by telling their stories, and engaging in in-depth research and archival work.

At the Lang Library, which is one of India’s largest public libraries, over 12,000 books have been digitised to preserve century-old texts and literary works, some of which are the oldest accounts of the historic Saurashtra region.

The Weaver Resource Bridge helped nine award-winning master weavers, including a Banarasi and a Pashmina weaver sell their work online during COVID-19.