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Ajanta CavesArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
A historical wonder: Aurangabad - Sep 7, 2008 IndiaPost.com,Important places in and around Aurangabad include Bibi Ka Maqbara (a replica of the Taj Mahal), the Ellora, Aurangabad and Ajanta caves, the Ghrishneshwar When the rocks tell you their tales - Sep 11, 2008 Livemint,Nitin Mukul The next morning, we set out at 8am to beat the Independence Day holiday rush to the Ajanta caves, which date back to the second century BC. Jalgaon Partners Seek - Sep 17, 2008 ChannelTimes.com (press release),Located around 64 km south of famous Ajanta Caves, the city has a population of 368579 (2001 census). Following the latest IT trends set by Mumbai, SARTORIAL HISTORIES: Sorry, No Sari - Aug 31, 2008 Times of India,At Ajanta caves, there are pilgrims, ladies in waiting, dancing women, nurses tending the sick, idle townswomen looking out of their windows, all wearing no Ajanta Caves: Marvel of Buddhist religious art - Feb 17, 2008 IndiaPost.com,Ajanta Caves, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site, holds masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, considered the finest examples of architecture. Backpack Blogs: Ajanta Caves - Feb 12, 2008 Great Indian Mutiny,Imagine a cluster of caves in a horseshoe-shaped gorge with a small river flowing through it. Add to that a jaw-dropping 7-stepped waterfall through which WHO OWNS THE SUBLIME? - Jan 23, 2008 Calcutta Telegraph,My first-ever trip to the Ajanta caves could not have been more ill-timed. When I finally reached there from Aurangabad, my heart leapt at the sight of the Why the Thackerays deserve an award - Feb 13, 2008 Great Indian Mutiny,Some bloggers might even visit the Ajanta caves, click pics frantically and then promptly make three Backpack Blogs posts on Mutiny. IRON MAIDEN IN INDIA - Feb 1, 2008 Imperiumi.net,...and prettier than us too!� A source close to the crew said that their schedule includes a quick trip to the Ajanta caves on Friday morning. CONSERVATION COSTS LESS THAN UGLINESS - Jan 23, 2008 Calcutta Telegraph,Very few heritage structures, such as the Taj Mahal, Ajanta caves, Khajuraho temples, are akin to paintings and deserve to be treated with principles that ASI scars Ajanta with cement work - Nov 20, 2007 Times of India,AURANGABAD: The outer portion of second century BC and Unesco World Heritage Site Ajanta caves has been badly scarred after the Archaeological Survey of Simply grand - Nov 20, 2007 Frontline,THE Ajanta caves, in the gorge of the Waghora river. Ajanta’s paintings occupy the pre-eminent position in the mural traditions of Asia. Ajanta art gets digital thrust - Nov 13, 2007 Daily News & Analysis,AURANGABAD: Once again, the paintings of Ajanta caves have successfully inspired another work of art. This time, it is the Maharashtra Tourism Development Foreigners to pay in rupees as entry fee in monuments - Nov 15, 2007 Times of India,There are 21 World Heritage sites, including Taj Mahal, Ajanta Caves, Konark, Humayun Tomb and Qutab Minar, while there are 3667 protected monuments in the The Incredible India pavilion emerges as one of the largest ... - Nov 16, 2007 TravelBizMonitor,The Incredible India pavilion was designed on the theme of the world heritage site - Ajanta Caves. The pavilion had traditionally designed wooden pillars “Affront to India’s pluralist culture� - Nov 23, 2007 Hindu,In the Sibi Jataka, painted in the 2nd-5th century painting at Ajanta Caves, the king of the Sibis offered an equal weight of his own flesh to a hawk which Curb on construction activities near monuments may go - Nov 10, 2007 Economic Times,There are 21 world heritage sites in the country including Taj Mahal, Ajanta Caves, Konark, Humayun Tomb and Qutab Minar. "However, the amended rules would Mowgli turns 40 - Nov 2, 2007 Kolkata Newsline,Ajit Rao, an Indian animator who is working on a graphic novel on the Ajanta caves, is exploring Indianness in animation and folklore. Mowgli remixed - Nov 1, 2007 Mumbai Newsline,...“While working on a graphic novel on the Ajanta Caves, I found it hard to come up with alternatives that were truly Indian.� “Our folk tales need to be Mr. Rainbow: The Strange Ride of Sir Edwin Lutyens - Nov 1, 2007 Desicritics.org,Sites like the 3rd century BCE stupa at Sanchi, or the ancient Buddhist Ajanta caves, all of which were basically unknown before being excavated, Facilitation centre to elucidate Ajanta sculptures, murals - Sep 30, 2007 Hindu,Caves number 1, 2, 16 and 17 of the Ajanta caves complex, comprising a total of 30 caves, which have the maximum paintings will be recreated at the centre A Veritable Taj Mahal - Oct 8, 2007 The Moscow Times,...which probably refers to the elephants depicted in the Ajanta caves in India, but is just as fitting for the restaurant's pachyderm-sized housings. The stones and their stories - Oct 12, 2007 Hindu,You would be surprised to know that he designed the Bhavan by taking columns from the Ajanta caves. Its dome was taken from the Sanchi Stupa and Ashoka Why are foreign tourists overcharged in India? - Oct 11, 2007 Sify,While a foreigner pays Rs 250 at World Heritage Monuments like the Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra and the Qutab Minar here, the fee for an Indian is just Rs 10 Technology takes flight - Aug 16, 2007 Hindu Business Line,These include ISRO’s Chandrayaan moon mission, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, restoration work at the Taj Mahal and Ajanta Caves, the Global Pagoda — an Oriental Travels - Aug 5, 2007 أرابياAjanta & Ellora : Ajanta caves, the 29 caves adorned with exquisite wall ? paintings and sculptures depicting scenes from the life of Buddha, Indian innovations up for grabs - Aug 17, 2007 Business Standard,Other engineering feats that will get the spotlight shone on them are the Bandra-Worli sea link, the restoration work at the Ajanta caves and the Global Q&A: 'Beedi jalai le won't last that long' - Aug 14, 2007 Times of India,When you colour a black-and-white film it's as terrible as painting the Ajanta caves. You're polluting history. I'm also against remixes. Discovery explores technology driving India forward - Aug 10, 2007 Indiantelevision.com,...from the restoration work at the Taj Mahal and Ajanta Caves to an engineering marvel fit for the Gods Global Pagoda under construction near Mumbai, Tourists damaging Ajanta caves Nov 17, 2006 Tourists will have to be regulated at the caves of Ajanta and Ellora if the heritage caves are to be preserved better. This is the ... - Hindustan Times, Experts work on Ajanta’s leaky caves Nov 15, 2006 Over the next few days, an international team of conservationists will study the damage caused to the Ajanta caves because of seepage and rock fall in the last ... - Hindustan Times, Rock-cut caves at Guntupalli Nov 16, 2006 ...of the Eastern Ghats. Like the Ajanta caves, the caves are half-globularly excavated and have stone rafters. The unique feature ... - Newindpress (subscription), Replica of Ajanta paintings will check further damage Nov 19, 2006 ..."The replica would ensure that visitors reaching the Ajanta caves won't spend much time going through the original paintings all over again," said Graham Brooks ... - Times of India, Beyond the Caves, in Mumbai Nov 3, 2006 ...of Mumbai — the sprawling cultural capital on India’s west coast (and the stopover point for most foreigners headed to the Ajanta Caves), where earth meets ... - New York Times, TOURISM IS A MAJOR ENGINE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND A DIRECT ... Oct 28, 2006 Qutub Minar in Delhi; Somnath Temple in Gujarat; Heritage properties at Chail & Naggar in HP; Hampi in Karnataka; Gwalior fort in MP; Ajanta Caves & Sinhagad ... - Press Information Bureau (press release), [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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