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12 stories for “Art & Culture” · April 2026
Clear filtersThe Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India (CCIC) has launched ‘Soul Threads’, its first-ever heritage designer collection. The collection is intended to promote India’s rich artisanal heritage and to support we...
The Union Ministry of Culture has launched ‘VM Frames’, a National Filmmaking Competition to commemorate 150 years of the national song Vande Mataram. Participants can submit entries in the form of reels, AI-based films...
The Konyak tribe recently observed its Aoleang festival in Kohima, the capital of Nagaland, from April 1 to April 6. The festival is celebrated by the community to mark the New Year and to welcome the arrival of spring....
The foundation stone of India's first Petroglyph Conservation Park has been laid in Ladakh, on the banks of the Indus River.What are petroglyphs: Prehistoric carvings made on rock surfaces.Location: Banks of the Indus Ri...
World Art Day is observed every year on April 15. The day is meant to encourage the growth, spread and enjoyment of art around the world, and to recognise the role of artists and creative expression in society and cultur...
A life-size bronze statue of Swami Vivekananda has been unveiled in Seattle. It is the first statue of its kind honouring him in the United States. Swami Vivekananda is widely remembered for carrying Indian spiritual tho...
Baisakhi is celebrated every year on April 13 or 14, coinciding with Mesha Sankranti, as both a harvest festival and the start of a new year. The same occasion is marked under different names across India: Puthandu in Ta...
The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs organised Bharat Tribes Fest 2026 in New Delhi. The festival was designed as a platform to showcase and promote the culture of India's tribal communities, along with their traditional...
A painting titled 'Yashoda and Krishna' by Raja Ravi Varma has become the most expensive artwork ever sold in India.The work fetched ₹167.20 crore at an auction held in Mumbai. Raja Ravi Varma, the celebrated 19th-centur...
Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan released 'Tides of Time', a book written by Sudha Murty.The book explains the 58 murals in Samvidhan Sadan and presents them as symbols of India's civilisation. Through these artworks,...
Utkal Divas, also called Odisha Foundation Day, is observed on April 1 to commemorate the formation of Odisha. The state came into being on 1 April 1936, when Odia-speaking areas spread across various provinces of Britis...
Hyderabad played host to the World Buddhist Peace Conference 2026, which drew participation from more than 20 countries. The gathering centred on core Buddhist values such as non-violence and compassion, and on the impor...
