Download or read book Rock Garden written by V. P. Mehta and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rock Garden A Vision of Creativity Memoirs of Nek Chand written by V. P. Mehta - Nek Chand Saini and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Garden is the single most important contribution by an Indian to world culture in the 20th century. In creating the Rock Garden, Nek Chand has transformed waste into beauty and has offered the world an extraordinary environment comprising a magical landscape of plants and architecture with hills and valleys, meandering walkways, towering waterfalls, arches and doorways which open up to unexpected vistas. Nek Chand's artistry, skill and resourcefulness are evident at every turn. He has sharpened sensibilities and heightened imagination. In addition to these qualities, he possesses abstract imagination and remarkable intuition for planning new structures according to space and lay of the land. His creativity is something to rejoice, his innate spirituality something to respect and above all the humbleness of a great man brings humility on all in the face of such astounding achievements. A visit to Rock Garden provides once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to peep into an exotic land of dreams and architectural brilliance. The narration of Nek Chand's life, struggle and memories as given in the book is exceptional because of perfect understanding of Nek Chand's mind his creative activity. At appropriate places, the exact words of Nek Chand are given in quotes. The book presents the essence of his thought. It has been designed as to give a complete picture of the garden from beginning to end. Many pictures of the garden are interspersed which will interest the readers. The pictures of Nek Chand himself in relation with the garden show his interrelation with his creation. As one unfolds the book, one is filled with scenes of fantasy and romance. The visuals in the form of various phases of Rock Garden are excellent and give clear view of Rock Garden even if you have not visited it. The book will be well received by readers.
Download or read book Rock by Rock written by Jennifer Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This luminous picture book tells the fascinating true story of artist Nek Chand and how his secret art project—hidden away in a jungle—became one of India’s most treasured wonders, second only to the Taj Mahal. In the bustle of the busy streets of Chandigarh, India, Nek Chand saw something no one else did. Where others saw rocks and stones, Nek saw the boyhood village he missed so dearly. Where others saw broken plates and glass, Nek saw laughing men. And where others saw trash, Nek saw beauty. Nek Chand’s incredible rock garden, built from stone and scraps and concrete, began as a way for him to express his long-felt grief at having to leave his boyhood village due to the violence caused by the partition of India. What began as a secret and personal (not to mention initially illegal) project became so much more, not only to Nek but to all of India.
Download or read book Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects written by Indian Institute of Architects and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian National Bibliography written by B. S. Kesavan and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preserving Vernacular Art Environments in the Landscape written by Kathryn E. Franks and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Kingdom written by Barb Rosenstock and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the world’s largest visionary environment: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, kept secret by outsider artist Nek Chand for fifteen years. After the partition of India in 1947, Nek Chand Saini settled in the city of Chandigarh, with nothing but stories brought from his homeland. Dismayed at his stark new surroundings, Nek began collecting river rocks, broken glass, and cracked water pots found on the roadside. He cleared a section of jungle and for seven years he stockpiled odds and ends. They were castoffs and rubbish to everyone else, but to Nek, they were treasures. He began to build a labyrinth of curving paths, mosaics, and repeating patterns: his very own tribute to the winding village of his youth, a hidden land of stories. Nek kept his kingdom secret for fifteen years, until a government crew stumbled upon it and sought to destroy it. But local fans agreed in awe: the Rock Garden had to be protected. Author Barb Rosenstock introduces readers to the outsider artist’s stunning creation, while Claire A. Nivola’s illustrations bring to life the land’s natural beauty and the surreal world Nek coaxed from his wild landscape.
Download or read book The Collection the Ruin and the Theatre written by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged by many as one of the modern wonders of the world, the twenty-five acres of sculptures that make up The Rock Garden in the Indian city of Chandigarh has received worldwide attention through a number of exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title at the Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery in Liverpool, this beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched catalogue brings to light Nek Chand's incredible artistic and cultural achievement.
Download or read book Picturing South Asian Culture in English written by Tasleem Shakur and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raw Vision written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nek Chand s Outsider Art written by Lucienne Peiry and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty years ago, Chand worked as a road inspector in northern India. Each evening after work, he mounted his bicycle and carried - by the hundreds - stones that he found in the foothills of the Himalayas. In an abandoned jungle clearing, He built sculptures by combing these stones - which he believed possessed a soul - with urban debris: corroded wires, used sheet metal, detached bicycle parts, broken bracelets, and abandoned tubes and tires. He created a "kingdom of gods and goddesses," peopled by characters and animals. Today this kingdom covers more than thirty acres.--Back cover.
Download or read book The Illustrated Weekly of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mouse Charmers written by Anuradha Goyal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of Internet has been a significant gamechanger for our generation. Mouse Charmers are a new breed of entrepreneurs in emerging India powered by the Internet and the opportunities that it offers to create new markets and to cater to old markets in new ways. Some of them have already achieved success where they can be called iconic and inspiring while others have powerful ideas that put them on the same path. Anuradha Goyal tells the stories of digital entrepreneurs like Flipkart, Zomato, ImagesBazaar, IndiBlogger; how they started out, the innovations and technologies involved, their business models, and unique marketing strategies. Inspiring and useful, The Mouse Charmers is an essential guide for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Download or read book IELTS General Module book 4 written by JYOTI MALHOTRA and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IELTS TECH - GENERAL MODULE is the fourth book in the IELTS-Tech Series, and is widely recognised as a reliable means of assessing the language ability of candidates, who need to study or work where English is the language of Communication. This unique book is designed to give the future IELTS candidates an idea of whether their English is at the required level or not to compete the IELTS examinations. The book consists of all the four modules along with Presentations and Listening Material in a Compact Disk.
Download or read book Sahaja Yoga written by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and published by Divine Cool Breeze Books. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shri Mataji writes that “India is a very ancient country and it has been blessed by many seers and saints who wrote treatises about reality and guidelines on how to achieve it.” This is just such a book. This book is both an introduction to Sahaja Yoga, describing the nature of the subtle reality within each of us, and a step-by-step handbook on how to be a good Sahaja Yogi, the nature of Sahaj culture, how to be a leader and how to raise children. “The knowledge of Sahaja Yoga cannot be described in a few sentences or one small book, but one should understand that all this great work of creation and evolution is done by some great subtle organization, which is in the great divine form.”
Download or read book All the Lives We Never Lived written by Anuradha Roy and published by Washington Square Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and “one of India’s greatest living authors” (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son’s quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small‑town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British. So begins the “gracefully wrought” (Kirkus Reviews) story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who rebels against tradition to follow her artist’s instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin’s mother from India and Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war‑torn universe overtaken by patriotism. Evocative and moving, “this mesmerizing exploration of the darker consequences of freedom, love, and loyalty is an astonishing display of Roy’s literary prowess” (Publishers Weekly).
