Heritage Conservation

The convenor of INTACH's Bengaluru Chapter, Meera Iyer has made the conservation of the city's forgotten heritage her life's mission. Here's the story of what inspired her to do so.

Dr Raghavendra R, a programme coordinator for National Service Scheme (NSS) at Seshadripuram Degree College in Mysuru and his students have received four lakes, ten water ponds and eight temples as a part of community service

Two volunteer groups have been traversing through villages in Pune to collect and preserve Veergals without any help from officials.

The 110-year-old heritage train service has resumed charge to run along its full 21km stretch regularly starting today, after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated it on Republic day.

Under its 'Know your Indo-French Heritage' workshop, Indian and French architecture students will join hands with locals and kickstart a conservation project to restore French heritage buildings at Chandernagore.

It is a matter of pride that out of over 43 applications spanning ten countries that competed for the 2017 Unesco Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple is the only religious centre in the whole of South India to bag the award in 2017.

The Southern Railway conducted the sixth heritage run of the steam loco, Express EIR 21, which lugged a single coach from Chennai’s Egmore to Kodambakkam.

Ancient Mumbai’s historic architectural genius also reflects in more than 30 pyaus across the city which are fragments of history of a city that never sleeps.

Six months after joining the People’s Archive of Rural India as part of AIF’s Clinton Fellowship for Service in India, Olivia Waring shares her journey of leaving a lucrative job in Silicon Valley to put her coding skills to use for the greater good. 

Here’s why you should travel to one of the hundreds of heritage sites dotted across India for your next trip or vacation.