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  PTI/File Image Around this time last year, Chennai’s Kannagi Nagar, a resettlement colony in the city, was under the spotlight as the city’s 'first art district'. The project was spearheaded by St+art India Foundation, co-founded by Italian contemporary art curator Giulia Ambrogi, based on an invitation from Dr Alby John Varghese, the Regional Deputy Commissioner (South) of Greater Chennai Corporation. India has a handful of other art districts, including cities like Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai. What constitutes an art district? In addition to taking art to them, organisers also host festivals and cultural programmes involving the local community. In Chennai, the initiative was done jointly in collaboration with Asian Paints, Greater Chennai Corporation and Chennai Smart City Limited. While Chennai has many other public murals, the latest being the panoramic wall mural at Indira Nagar MRTS (280-metre-long facade), Kannagi Nagar is its first art district. About 16 murals were...

  P reeti Patil from Mumbai is lobbying for “skyscraper architects to redesign buildings, especially rooftops, to increase green spaces”. Her plea stems from nearly 20 years of commitment to her passion. Almost two decades ago, Preeti, the chief catering manager at MbPT (Mumbai Port Trust), unknowingly started a lifestyle trend for the Mumbaikars — terrace and balcony gardening. While balcony gardeners restricted themselves to growing potted plants like roses, jasmine, mint, coriander or the cactus, the concept of utilising the rooftops of their buildings to grow vegetables and fruits, Preeti claims, was first advocated by her. Preeti Patil, one of the first proponents of terrace gardening. Reminiscing about the beginning in 2001, Preeti says, “At the MbPT cafeteria, every day we prepare meals and snacks for thousands of port trust personnel. So imagine the amount of vegetable and fruit waste and uneaten food waste that ends up in landfills.’’ The huge mounds of kitchen waste trigg...

 Hello friends, I am KRUDANT back here on THE SMART SIDE!!!!! I am going to share some amusing facts about INDIA.. 1) 5000 years old, Varanasi is One of The Oldest Inhabited Places in the World 2) A Meteor formed the Breathtaking Lonar Lake in Maharashtra 3) Snakes and Ladders was invented in  India . 4) India  is officially known as the Republic of  India . 5) The national symbol of India is the endangered Bengal Tiger. 6) India  has never invaded any country. 7) India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices.The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011. 8)The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space. 9)Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference 14)The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle 19)The human calculator It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man h...

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  Tintin comic book art breaks auction record at $3.1 million Painting for the original cover of “The Blue Lotus (Lotus Bleu)” Tintin comic book (1936) is displayed before being auctioned by Artcurial in Paris on January 13, 2021. | Photo Credit:  REUTERS AP PARIS  15 JANUARY 2021 01:37 IST UPDATED: 15 JANUARY 2021 14:37 IST         A Tintin drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold on January 14 in Paris for €2.6 million ($3.1 million), breaking the record for the most expensive comic book art in history. The 1936 work in Chinese ink, gouache and watercolour was destined as a cover for  The Blue Lotus,  the fifth volume of the adventures of Tintin, a young reporter created by Hergé. The work features a red dragon on a black background by the frightened character's face. It never graced store shelves because it was deemed too expensive to reproduce on a wide scale, a victim of the artist's craftsmanship. Advertising Advertising In  B...