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I am collecting Indian Heritage and culture related vintage postcards, paintings, prints etc. and exhibited them at several locations across India in various events and also sharing them with school and college children by giving presentations to them on Indian Heritage and Culture with my collections and also documenting puppetry etc. intangible performances.

Monday 29 September 2014

Durga Puja Pandals and Devi Navaratri 9 Day Festival photographs

These are photographs taken at several Goddess Durga Puja Pandals. In the coming days i will share more photographs of Durga Pandals. 

These are  photographs taken at Goddess Durga Maa Puja Pandal at Lankelapalem Vishakapatnam district.































These are  photographs taken at Durga Devi Navatri Puja Pandal near Nookambika Temple in Anakapalli, Vishakapatnam district.

I guess Bengali people who are living in Anakapalli are preparing this Pandal because here idols similar like in Durga Pandals of West Bengal state.




 



Friday 26 September 2014

Goddess Durga Maa Midnapore Patachitra paintings in my collection ( ఇవి నేను సేకరించిన దుర్గా మాత మిడ్నాపూర్ పాటచిత్ర పెయింటింగ్ లు)



These are Goddess Durga Maa Midnapore Patachitra paintings in my collection.

ఇవి నేను సేకరించిన దుర్గా మాత మిడ్నాపూర్ పాటచిత్ర పెయింటింగ్ లు
 


 


Pattachitra is a general term for traditional scroll painting in India, especially  in Odisha and West Bengal states.The Sanskrit pata means cloth, chitra means  painting.Patachitra is the painting usually made on tasar silk  cloth. Sometimes it is also made by gluing layers of old cotton cloth  with tamarind glue and chalk to create a leather like surface.The  history of 'patachitra' or scroll painting in Bengal goes back to more  than two thousand years. Rural bards and story-tellers in earlier times would use these scrolls which had pictures depicting various events and themes of the stories they would tell.
 

 
 
 పాటచిత్ర పెయింటింగ్ లు ఒరిస్సా రాష్ట్రములో మరియు పశ్చిమ బెంగాల్ రాష్ట్రములో చిత్రిస్తారు. 2 రాష్ట్రములలోని పాటచిత్ర పెయింటింగ్ ల యొక్క శైలి విభిన్నమైయినది. దేనికవే ప్రత్యకమైనవి. పశ్చిమ బెంగాల్ రాష్ట్రములోని పశ్చిమ మిడ్నాపూర్ జిల్లాలో చిత్రించే పాటచిత్ర  పెయింటింగ్ లకి ఆ ప్రాంతము పేరు అయిన మిడ్నాపూర్ పాటచిత్ర  పెయింటింగ్స్ అనే పేరు వచ్చింది.మిడ్నాపూర్ పాటచిత్ర  పెయింటింగ్ లకు 2000 సంవత్సరముల చరిత్ర కలదు. ఈ చిత్రకారులు ప్రకృతిలో దొరికే సహజసిద్ధమైన వనమూలికలు మొదలగునవి ఈ చిత్రములు గీయడానికి వాడతారు.  వీరు చిత్రించే పాటచిత్ర పైంటింగ్స్ చాలా విలక్షణముగా మరియు ఏ ప్రాంతములో లోని ఒక ప్రత్యేక శైలి లో ఉంటాయి .వీరు చిత్రించే చిత్రములతో వీరిలో కొంతమంది కధలు చెబుతారు. భారత దేశములో అనాది కాలము నుంచి చిత్రములతో కధలు చెప్పే సంప్రదాయము ఉన్నది.  

  ఈ మిడ్నాపూర్ పాటచిత్ర  పెయింటింగ్స్ చిత్రించే కళాకారులు అందరి పేరులోను చిత్రకార్ అనే పేరు వారి పేరుతో పాటు కలిగి ఉంటారు. ఈ 3 చిన్న పెయింటింగ్ లని నేను బహదూర్ చిత్రాకార్ దగ్గర తీసుకున్నాను.














Wednesday 24 September 2014

Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma temple wall painting (ఇది ఒక దేవాలయములో గోడ మీద చిత్రించిన విజయవాడ ఇంద్రకీలాద్రి కనక దుర్గ అమ్మ వారి పెయింటింగ్)

  

Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma temple wall painting (ఇది ఒక దేవాలయములో గోడ మీద చిత్రించిన విజయవాడ ఇంద్రకీలాద్రి కనక దుర్గ అమ్మ వారి పెయింటింగ్)
Dear All, Happy Devi Navarathri (Sarannavarathri) festival wishes to all people. 

Goddess Durga Maa bless all of us with her Motherly Divine Grace.

As now it is Devi Navarathi festival season which starts from tomorrow. On the event of this Devi Narathri festival from today onwards and in the coming days also i am sharing some articles about our Divine Goddess Durga Maa, and also photos which i taken at several Goddess Durga Amma temples and also images of Goddess Durga paintings which are in my collection. 

This is the painting of  Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma painting. I am taking this photograph at Sri Nookalamma Sri Nerellamma Temple of Gollala Mamida, East Godavari District.

This is the temple entrance of this Sri Nookalamma Sri Nerellamma Temple of Gollala Mamida, East Godavari District where i am taking photograph of Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma painting at inside temple wall.





This is the photo of side view of Sri Nookalamma Sri Nerellamma Temple of Gollala Mamida, East Godavari District.



This is the painting of  Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma painting. This Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma painting is drawn in  Sri Nookalamma Sri Nerellamma Temple of Gollala Mamida, East Godavari District. 

Recently i visited to this temple to take photographs in this beautiful Goddess Durga Amma temple.

This is the painting of  Vijayawada Indrakeeladri Sri Kanaka Durga Amma painting.  This painting drawn at inside the temple walls of Sri Nookalamma Sri Nerellamma Temple of Gollala Mamida, East Godavari District.







Famous Sri Kanaka Durga Amma temple is situated at Indrakeeladri, Vijayawada. Goddess Kanaka Durga Amma is the presiding Deity in this famous temple. 

There is an historic legend behind Goddess Sri Kanaka Durga Amma stayed on the hill  Indrakeeladri, Vijayawada for the benefit of all humans.

This is the link where you find  information about significance, historical and legendary narration about Sri Kanaka Durga Amma varu of Indrakeeladri, Vijayawada from the Official Website of Sri Kanka Durga Amma temple.

http://www.durgamma.com/historyinEnglish.aspx

This is the photo of Sri Kankara Durga Amma varu of Indrakeeladri, Vijayawada. I got this from the temple's official website.




Along with the official website of Sri Kanaka Durga Amma varu of Indrakeeladri, Vijayawada http://www.durgamma.com/DEFAULT.ASPX  you will also find information abut this famous temple in Wikipedia website also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaka_Durga_Temple

 

Monday 8 September 2014

Ganapati Bappa Morya


This is the cover page of Souvenir printed by "Kakinada City Ganesha Utsava Samithi" on the occasion of its Silver Jubilee year celebration (1989-2014).

This "Kakinada City Ganesha Utsava Samithi" established in the year 1989 in Kakinada and from then onwards every year there were grand celebrations by kakinada people with much enthusiasm and devotion starting from Ganesha Charurthi festival day to last day of the festival where Lord Ganesha idols nimajanam (immersion).
Starting from 1989 every year there will be volume of Ganesha idols nimjjanam is increasing by year by year. Last year i.e. 2013 there were nearly 300 idols immersion taken place and in the current year yesterday i.e. on 7th September, 2014 there were nearly 500 Ganesha idols nimajjanam (immersion) taken place in "Lokmanya Balagangadhar Tilak pranganam, Vinayaksagar, Jagannathapuram Warf Road, Kakinada". This place is permanent in kakinada for immersion of Ganesha idols every year.

These are some photographs which i taken with my digital camera at the time of Lord Ganesha idols nimajjanam (immersion) in Kakinada.


Yesterday Kakinada people of all age groups actively participated in this Ganesha idols nimajjanam (immersion) celebration.

These are some photographs where people enjoying with much devotion by chanting "Ganapati Bappa Morya" sloka.






These are only few photographs which i shared now and in the coming days i will share more photos of this Ganesha idols immersion celebration. 

Further during the last 9 days i taken photographs of nearly 120 different Lord Ganapati Mandapams (Mandals) in Kainada and in the coming days i am sharing these photographs also in this post.