Mixed Bag

India's golden triangle is a tourist circuit which connects the national capital Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. The
Golden Triangle is so called because of the triangular shape formed by the locations of New
Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan on a map. But now Amritsar is emerging as fourth angle of this triangle.
Mahaswetah Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016)[1][2] was an Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-
political activist. Her notable literary works include Hajar Churashir Maa, Rudali, and Aranyer
Adhikar.[3] She was a self-recognised communist and worked for the rights and empowerment of the
tribal people (Lodha and Shabar) of West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states of India.
Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Decca, British India (now Dhaka, Bangladesh). Her father, Manish
Ghatak, was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol movement. Her first novel, titled Jhansir Rani,
based on a biography of the Rani of Jhansi was published in 1956. In 1964, she began teaching
at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College. At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006, when India was the first country to
be the Fair's second time guest nation, she made an impassioned inaugural speech wherein she moved
the audience to tears with her lines taken from the famous film song "Mera Joota Hai Japani" by Raj
Kapoor.[14]
In the standard Hindu calendar and India's national civil calendar, Chaitra is the first month of the year.
It is the last month in the Bengali calendar, where it is called Choitro. Chaitra or Chait is also the last
month in the Nepali calendar (the Vikram Samvat), where it commences in mid-March. Chithirai is
the first month in the Tamil calendar. In Sindhi calendar, this month is referred to as Chet and is
marked by the celebration of the Cheti Chand (birth of Jhulelal, an incarnation of Vishnu). In
the Vaishnava calendar, Vishnu governs this month.
The Indian national calendar, sometimes called the Shalivahana Shaka calendar. It is used, alongside
the Gregorian calendar, by The Gazette of India, in news broadcasts by All India Radio and in calendars
and communications issued by the Government of India.
Kalighat painting or Kalighat Pat originated in the 19th century West Bengal, India, in the vicinity
of Kalighat Kali Temple, Kalighat, Calcutta, India, and from being items of souvenir taken by the
visitors to the Kali temple, the paintings over a period of time developed as a distinct school of Indian
painting. These paintings were done on cloth or patas. They depicted conventional images of gods and
goddesses and scenes from epics like Tulsidas’ Rama Charita Manas. The artists were villagers who
travelled from place to place with their scroll paintings and sang the scenes from the epics depicted in
the paintings during village gatherings and various festivals. These artists, called patuas or ‘painters on
cloth’.
Jamini Roy (11 April 1887 – 24 April 1972) was an Indian painter. He was honoured with the State award
of Padma Bhushan in 1954 . He was one of the most famous pupils of Rabindranath Tagore, whose
artistic originality and contribution to the emergence of modern art in India remains unquestionable.
When he was sixteen he was sent to study at the Government College of Art,
Kolkata.[1] Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of Bengal school was vice principal at the institution. He
was most influenced by the Kalighat Pat (Kalighat painting), which was a style of art with bold
sweeping brush-strokes.
The Gita Govinda (Sanskrit: गीत गोविन्द) (Song of Govinda) is a work composed by the 12th-century
Indian poet, Jayadeva. It describes the relationship between Krishna and the gopis (female cow herders)
of Vrindavana, and in particular one gopi named Radha. The Gita Govinda is organized into twelve
chapters. Each chapter is further sub-divided into twenty-four divisions called Prabandhas. The
prabandhas contain couplets grouped into eights, called Ashtapadis. It is mentioned that Radha is greater
than Krishna. The text also elaborates the eight moods of Heroine, the Ashta Nayika, which has been an
inspiration for many compositions and choreographic works in Indian classical dances.