between thinking and feeling, reference and referent. sound and sense, denotation and connotation. It e adheres to relative rather than absolute certainties, and uses ambivalence and ambiguity as torch lights to illumine the shadowy corridors of cultural history. This is thus a Volume offering homage to the amazing possibilities of the human language; and to one of the men who has fulfilled, these to the utmost.
Some of his forthcoming publications are the Early Buddhist Art of Bodhgaya, Art of Daksina Kosala, articles in the Macmillan Dictionary of Art, London, an edited volume on Tribal Identity. He has chaired sessions in national and international seminars including World Archaeology Congress, World Ethno biology Congress, Indian Science Congress. He is member of many expert committees and learned societies at the state, national and international level. A senior member of the Indian Administrative Service, he has specially concerned himself with development of museums and organization of excavation, conservation and non-invasive recycling of monuments, ecological monitoring of cultural and administrative initiatives throughout his eventful career. At present, he is Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (National Museum of Man) at Bhopal, promoting a multidisciplinary museum movement dedicated to the revitalization of dead, languishing, vanishing arts and crafts, ethnic identity, skills and knowledge.
Dr. O.P. MISRA Dr. Om Prakash Misra, M.A. in A.I.H.C and Archaeology from Gorakhpur University, Ph.D. from Bhopal University; is the Publication Officer in the office of the Directorate of Archaeology, Archives and Museums, Government of Madhya Pradesh. Member of many learned societies and Associate/ Joint Editor of several significant publications, including the departmental journal, Puratan, Dangwada Excavation Report; Khajuraho in Perspective, Vidisha, Ratlam, Shahpur, K.D. Bajpai Commemoration volume, the author of Mother Goddess in Central India and Iconography of Saptamatrkas.
Dr. Misra has participated in many excavations in Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, and contributed articles to different journals on the Art and Architecture of Madhya Pradesh.
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Hindu (876)
Agriculture (85)
Ancient (994)
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Art & Culture (848)
Biography (587)
Buddhist (540)
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Islam (234)
Jainism (271)
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Mahatma Gandhi (377)
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