heritage

A civil engineer and a professor at Vellore Institute of Technology, Thirumallini Selvaraj has been using ancient and sustainable methods to restore heritage structures such as Padmanabhapuram Palace, Charminar, Vadakkunnathan Temple, and many more.

In Kerala's Peruvemba village, one family has been making the Mridangam, a Carnatic instrument, for four generations. They make two types of Mridangams - Ech and Thag.

The Salvi family from Gujarat has also established the Patan Patola Heritage museum, where they conduct live demonstrations of the painstaking weaving process

Dhananjay Shinde, a city-based architect restored the 100-year-old Udoji boarding school in Nashik with a green touch

Skilled, sturdy and well adapted to India’s tropical climate, these desi doggos are much easier to maintain than exotic breeds.

In 2015, Shri Bala quit her full-time job as a chartered accountant at a law firm in Chennai and pursued a career in the culinary world.

If you feel the story of this swadeshi tea brand is intriguing, wait till you see its iconic logo!

Treated with a mixture of oil and ash, coloured by the hue of an Indian tree — a single piece of Telia Rumal takes around 2 months to be completed.

"With each passing day, painted Havelis in Shekhawati are falling apart and beautiful frescoes are crumbling to dust, erasing some very significant history of a rich cultural region in Rajasthan."

“Even before I learnt to write the alphabet, I was drawing and sketching. I don’t even remember how old I was when I started.”