Madhya Pradesh
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When one thinks of India’s narrow-lane railways or tram-like tracks winding through marketplaces and grazing past fields, the mind almost instinctively travels to Calcutta (now Kolkata) or perhaps the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. The Calcutta trams rattling through Chowringhee and across Maidan…
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Those who know a little about Gwalior rightly imagine it as a city built on rocks at the edges of the Vindhyas. It does not inspire images of greenery or common breathing spaces. Like many other cities in India, and around the developing world, the city is facing a rapid increase in population due…
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Bateshwar, which technically falls in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, lies just around 25 kilometers from the Gwalior airport. This site, nestled between hillocks, forests, streams, and fields, hosts over 200 temples dedicated to Vishnu, Shiva, and Shakti at the same complex. Bateshwar’s…
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Pandit Om Prakash Sharma is considered to be the face of maach folk theatre form in India. He belongs to the Ustad Kaluram school of maach. Ustad Kaluram was his grandfather, and he has been practising the folk art of maach since his childhood. His contribution to maach is not restricted…
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate
way in which a human being can share with another the sense of
what it is to be a human being.
—Oscar Wilde
In the social structure of India, living traditions hold a prominent position. Any form of living…
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Since the early eighteenth century, maach, a musical folk theatre form of Madhya Pradesh, has been an integral part of the local culture of the Malwa region. Performed mostly by men who also don female roles, the performance art form uses satirical humour in its songs and dialogues to make…
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बुन्देलखण्डी परिवेश में रहकर बड़ी हुईं मैत्रेयी पुष्पा के विभिन्न उपन्यासों, ‘इदन्नमम’, ‘बेतवा बहती रही’, ‘अल्मा कबूतरी’ आदि में बुन्देलखण्ड के भूगोल, सामाजिक-जनजीवन, संस्कृति आदि का सम्पूर्णता से परिचय मिलता है। मैत्रेयी पुष्पा को हिन्दी अकादमी द्वारा साहित्य कृति सम्मान, ‘फैसला’ कहानी पर कथा…
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साहित्य किसी भी क्षेत्र के संस्कृति-संरक्षण में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाता है। हिन्दी साहित्य में बुन्देलखण्डी संस्कृति को अन्य क्षेत्रों की संस्कृति की अपेक्षा कम महत्व दिया गया है। साहित्य में संस्कृति के संरक्षण की दृष्टि से वृन्दावन लाल वर्मा और मैत्रेयी पुष्पा के उपन्यासों में बुन्देलखण्डी-…
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बुन्देलखण्ड मध्य-भारत का ऐसा भाग है, जिसमें उत्तर प्रदेश और मध्य प्रदेश दोनों राज्यों के आंशिक क्षेत्र समाहित हैं। बुन्देलखण्ड के अलग-अलग भागों में इतिहास, संस्कृति और भाषा की दृष्टि से विविधता होते हुए भी भौगोलिक, सामाजिक, सांस्कृतिक समानता लिए हुए एक अलग ही विशिष्टता है। किसी भी प्रान्त पर…
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