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Bhāratavarṣa
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Millennia of civilisation
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Civilisational continuity: the Pashupati Seal of Sindhu Valley and Shri T. Krishnamacharya demonstrating the yogic posture.
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Kashi in the late 1970s.
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Mandapa of the Ranakpur Jain Temple in Rajasthan.
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Bhavani by Anuj Sastrakar
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Marriage of Prince Siddhartha and Princess Yashodhara, 547 BCE.
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Modhera, Gujarat
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Shiva seated on Nandi
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Indo-futurism and Dharmic Revival architecture for the win!
One big soft-power block of India is their lack of popular "cyberpunk" aesthetics. East Asia was always able to project itself as the future through fiction, fantasy and urban aesthetics, which probably trickled into real-world investment and their developmentalist mindset too.
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An ancient civilisation, immortalised through an extraordinary love for beauty.
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The beginning of Kaliyuga
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Lapis lazuli Vishnupad with Chakra, Shankha, Padma and Gada from Gandhara, Gupta Period.
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चामुण्डा
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Art Deco mural at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur depicting the battle between Ram and Ravan. Painted by Polish artist Stefan Norblin in the 1940s.
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Such architecture should shape every corner of our cities.
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Jodhpur
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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu leading a Sankirtan procession with his followers, 1500s.
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's visit to the ruins of the Somnath Temple in Gujarat on November 13, 1947.
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