Culture
Ashta Nayika
The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit…
Pattachitra
Pattachitra or Patachitra is a general term for traditional, cloth-based scroll painting, based in the eastern Indian states of West…
Madhubani painting
Madhubani painting is a style of painting, practised in the Mithila region of Bihar state. Themes revolve around Hindu Gods…
Kangra painting
Kangra painting is the pictorial art of Kangra, named after Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, a former princely state, which patronized the…
Thanjavur painting
Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore)…
Mysore painting
Mysore painting (Kannada: ಮೈಸೂರು ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ) is an important form of classical South Indian painting that originated in and around the…
Azerbaijani folklore
Azerbaijani folklore is a collection of collective creativity, whose authors are unknown. Along with not only the history of the…
Azerbaijani traditional clothing
Azerbaijani national dress - the people's material and spiritual culture have emerged as a result of a very difficult and…
Karabakh carpet
The Karabakh carpet is one of the varieties of carpets of Transcaucasia, made in the Armenian-controlled regions of Karabakh (de…
Armenian Men’s clothing
The dress of the Armenians reflects a rich cultural tradition. Wool and fur were utilized by the Armenians and later…