National Peoples Power’s leaderAnura Kumara Dissanayake’s recent visit to India had been the subject of much conjecture and speculation recently. The reason the visit raised eyebrows was that its parent party theJVPwas blatantly anti-Indian. Of its infamous five classes to enlighten the masses a...
Tamil Nadu has a long tradition of venerable culture. Unique cultural features like Bharatanatyam, Tanjore painting, and Tamil architecture were developed and practised in Tamil Nadu. Chola kings conquered lands as far north as the Ganges, and as far east as Malaysia and Indonesia resulting in d...
proposed deep architecture called KolamNetV2. KolamNetV2 comprises EfficientNet and attention layers, ensuring high accuracy with minimal training data and parameters. We evaluated KolamNetV2 to reveal its ability to learn the various types in our challenging Kolam dataset. The experimental findings sho...
In the afternoon drive on to Hassan. Breakfast Day 4 Hassan: Hoysala Temples Hassan lies in the heart of the Hoysala Kingdom, a powerful empire that ruled between the 10th and 14th centuries known for its art, architecture and religion, and left behind a large colle...
architecture is a blend of Dravidian and Rajasthani styles. The interior is richly decorated whilst the exterior is treated in a more austere style. This palace is situated 2 km south east of theMeenakshi Amman Temple. The original Palace Complex was four times bigger than the present structure...
I walked down the corridor and looked up at the cupola in the corner. Using clay as a building material has its constraints. Walls and pillars are thick, and getting enough light into a space requires different solutions. The syncretic architecture that had grown after the incursion of the De...
authorities at the Art Gallery of New South Wales would have realized the statue they purchased for $300,000 had been stolen if they had simply walked seven minutes across town to the state library of New South Wales. There Douglas E. Barrett’s 1974 bookEarly Cola Architecture and Sculpture...
theamude,(and as a child I have helped them around the field in sundry chores). My parents were Sinhala school teachers serving in far flung remote areas of the country and my schooling up to the age of 11 was in those rural schools. I am a son of the soil, perhaps more so than ...
In Old Goa, the beautiful Basilica of Bom Jesus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a fine example of baroque architecture. Visit during Christmastime to experience a fantastic religious and cultural mash-up of East and West. Read more Bakuriani Read more Chitwan National Park Read more ...
From the Krishna delta to Point Calimere a long sandy barrier occurs, backed by a more or less continuous line of tidal lagoons or creeks surrounded by marshy tracts or mangrove swamps. Such a feature, found even against the mouth of the main rivers, results from absolute dominance of marine...