The Puppet Show
Looks like its Raining Puppets! After my post on the Puppet Making Workshop, I had an opportunity to see a Puppet show at...
Bakula Nayak
Here I am writing of an artist, Bakula Nayak whose work is a love story with elements of the fairy tale and whimsy. And I can...
An Introduction to Yakshagana -Part II
Welcome back...it's time for the Yakshagana stories. If you haven't read up on the first part you could do it here or if you...
An Introduction to Yakshagana
When I started with the idea of stringsofheritage, I was assailed by doubts. And then some days I was very optimistic. With a...
Prabhakar Kini- Collector of Ganapathi sculptures and paintings
Mr. Prabhakar Kini is an artist, an entrepreneur and a collector. Even when he doodled with MS Paint, he would come up with...
Creation Of The Ganapathi Idols- The Raos
I guess I am just lucky that I can write about some of my childhood memories and have the world read about it. After all, not...
Terracotta Artist Venki Palimar
Flashback- The last time I visited Venki's (He is Venkataraman Kamath but known to everyone as Venki Palimar) terracotta...
Bindu Bolar the ‘Tribalina’-Tribal Fusion Belly Dance
If we had met in passing it would have been a ‘hi’ and a ‘bye’. After all we were classmates for three years during our...
Patachitra from Orissa
Last week I discussed the palm leaf engravings from Orissa, with Krishna as the central figure. Today I want to give you, a...
Krishna engraved on Palm Leaf
With Krishna Janmashtami round the corner, I thought it apt that I do a blog post on Krishna. Krishna fascinates each one of us....