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Outlining a heritagescape

Social ImpactAHRC, Balagarh, Baluchari, Bengal's heritage, Chinsurah, culture, custodian, heritage, Hooghly, Hugli, ICHR, IIT Kharagpur

A joint workshop at IIT Kharagpur tries to take heritage conservation from yearnings for the past to a vision for a resilient future The Baluchari sari has long been accepted as a reflection of Bengal’s rich artistic heritage. Does this idea of heritage also stretch to lives of the people who make it? Would this heritage have been preserved without their role in the sustenance of this art through their generational participation in its making? Would Chhau dance, another unique heritage of Bengal, survive if the next generation of Chhau dancers do not learn the dance? When the Rajbanshis…

Preserving a palimpsest

EventsChandannagar, Chandernagore, heritage, Heritage Fest, Heritage Week, Hooghly, Hugli, IIT Kharagpur, image, iPads, site

Indian Express The Telegraph, The Week Outlook Millennium Post Business Standard Ei Samay The Times of India In keeping with the spirit of the ongoing World Heritage Week, a Heritage Fest was organized in Chandernagore on November 25 by a local project team in partnership with the University of Liverpool and IIT Kharagpur. Their two-year project covers the stretch from Bandel to Barrackpore and seeks to protect and raise awareness of the rich cultural heritage of the cities and towns along the course of the Hugli River. Raising awareness among the young, the inheritors of the world’s heritage, is the chief aim…

Turning the tide

EventsBandel. river, British Council, Chandannagar, Chinsurah, heritage, Hugli, IIT Kharagpur, Srirampore

IIT Kharagpur will play a critical role in the preservation of Hugli’s heritage Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is all set to play a critical role in conservation efforts in Bengal. The Institute’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, in association with the University of Liverpool, UK¸ has initiated a pilot project that seeks to protect the rich cultural heritage of the cities and towns along the course of the Hugli river. “The Hugli River of Cultures Pilot Project, from Bandel to Barrackpore” intends to bring this rich heritage corridor into intense focus. The project is being jointly funded by…