Shriharsha Bhat
300 posts
@shriharshb
Marketer by profession, father, hiker, habitual traveler, avid reader, and a foodie!
The Forgotten Capital of India "Bayana, were it not for its shortage of water, might have been the capital of India." So begins Mehrdad Shokoohy's book on Bayana, one of the great forgotten cities of India, just a short drive from Delhi. 🧵
Bizarrely, until the 1990s, they had never been comprehensively photographed or studied. And yet the paintings depicted here had an extraordinarily global impact on Asian art, influencing the artistic traditions of Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, China, Korea and Japan.
The discovery of a 1.4-metre-tall Buddha head, along with tablets and stupas, some over 1,500 years old, in #Odisha’s Ratnagiri has brought the remote village into the limelight and attracted scholars from as far away as Egypt. The excavation has unearthed important historical details, such as Ratnagiri once being a major centre of Tantric Buddhism, while posing unforeseen problems for the experts, reports @satyabarik. 📸Biswaranjan Rout thehindu.com/news/national/…
FROM THE AWARD WINNING HISTORIAN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST - A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF THE DIFFUSION OF INDIAN IDEAS IS COMING SOON... STAY TUNED! @DalrympleWill #TheGoldenRoad #WilliamDalrymple #BloomsburyIndia #History
"I do not admit that a wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly-wise race … has come in & taken their place”
The Khmer temple, tomb, observatory, dynastic funeral chapel and national shrine now known as Angkor Wat was, and remains, the largest Hindu temple complex in the world, dwarfing the temples of Kanchipuram and Mamallapuram that ultimately inspired it.
30 years have flown by, yet 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa' remains an eternal favourite, much loved and remembered even now! No matter what era we are in, it's always 'haan' to watch this movie anytime over and over again. #30YearsOfKabhiHaanKabhiNaa
