Indian Art Summit
When looking to book that perfect five-star hotel, India is a perfectly splendid place to spend a vacation. There are amazing things here, with something special for every member of the family. All of the larger cities have a host of attractions that will entice and excite even the most seasoned world traveler, and leave you wanting to visit India again very soon. It is one of the oldest cultures on the planet, with a long and fascinating history that will be both entertaining and educational. There is a spectacular diversity here, with multiple languages and traditions. The food is some of the tastiest in the world, and there is enormous variety by region, and all of them are worth tasting. There are also ancient temples and contemporary galleries, where the spiritual and the artistic often change places. Our hotels will put you in the center of this in style.
For travelers who are interested in India’s art, then the perfect event for you is the Indian Art Summit. This is a very new event in New Delhi, having had its second event in August of 2009, and is held annually. It has been extremely successful, having attracted thousands of visitors both years. The number of international galleries increased from 3 to 17 from 2008 to 2009, giving a sense of the direction this is moving, becoming more attractive to the rest of the world. India’s art market is certainly on the rise, and it is a major contender in the international art scene. There have been some recent trends over the past decade which have made Indian art more highly sought after, and the success of the Indian Art Summit is a reflection of these patterns.
There is a very long tradition of visual art in India, going back at least 9,000 years. It is truly exciting when an event comes around to mark the great lineage and history of this rich cultural heritage, so that the Indian Art Summit is a chance to display the best of contemporary works, while examining its relation to a much larger and longer story. To this end, there is the Speakers Forum, in which national and international artists and experts speak about the most relevant issues of the day. Some of the most respected names in art practice and criticism participate, including: Arun Vadehra, Peter Nagy, Gayatri Singa, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jitish Kallat, Melissa Chiu, and Nicolas Bourriaud. This is a major event in the art world, held annually in Delhi.
Bangalore, City of Baked Beans
“So this is the City of Baked Beans, eh?” Roz said, eye brow raised in her Best Mr. Spock imitation. “Fascinating,” she pronounced. It seems a visiting king or prince or whatever, upon visiting the region like around 100 BC was offered a bowl of beans by an inhabitant and they were so good (the beans, not the resident, although she could have been) declared the place “Bendakaalooru” which turned into Bengalaroo, the way it is known in the local Kannada language (no mention if they were from modern day Canada. It could have happened.) WE didn’t wee any baked beans, but we did see a Bangalore of the IT industry, leader in India, a Westernizing city, where you may not have baked beans but traditional foods and an auto rickshaw blast by with twenty computers lashed to its frame, dodging crazily down the street. You could see these contrasts sitting at the terraces of some of the hotels Bangalore India provides (though we did not see the Baked Bean Hotel, we think there should be one).
We were listening in on the fine Indian fellow leading a tour of Korean tourists at the Palace of Tippi Sultan talking about the history of the region. The Palace is an ornate Mughul designed dream scape of impossibly beautiful and overwrought architecture and styling that is just plain fun to look at , forcing me to wonder, how did they do all this? We got kind of close to the group, listening to his lilting description of the Palace “…the city was founded by Kempa Gowda in 1537 AD…” when he gave us the stink eye for honing in on his talk without paying and so we wondered off our own way.
06.16.09Snowing in India
Winter continues through India’s summer, but not every where in India . Only at the world’s biggest Snow Theme Park, Snow World located by India 5 Star Hotels in Hyderabad. Snow World is India’s first Snow Themed Park and has established, by pioneers, a leisure industry in the state of Andhra Pradesh as a part of the Ocean Park Mulitech . It has become a landmark within a year after its launch and has been attracting more and more tourists not only from India but world round.
Snow World has a floor area of 60,000 square feet and an auditorium seating capacity of 800. It’s special chill zones are of a special delight to all. Lovers of fun will experience the chill as they move through different temperature zones with temperatures variants between 5 degrees centigrade in the snow house to 18 – 20 degrees centigrade in the auditorium zone. During the day, fun lovers will enjoy ice skating and in the evening they will be treated to a spectacular ice dancing show featuring internationally known ice-skaters from Russia, England and Brazil along with well known choreographers all invited to create ‘Magic on Ice’, which has been compared to the Lido show of Paris .
This largest indoor Snow Themed Park includes an vast variety of winter themed park attractions that offer professional coaches for figure skating, ice hockey, ice curling and even ice carving. To complete the snow experience there are facilities for snow skiing, snow sledging, snow boarding, tobogganing, tubing and anything else a family can think of as fun times in the snow. Right now, an indoor slope of 110 mts is being developed. It is a unique experience that nobody in India would have ever imagined. Probably, it’s the first ever experience one can imagine in the whole of India. Experience the chills and thrills, the fun and frolic and create wonderful memories of being cool in the heat of India’s summer.
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