When you enter Craft Museum Delhi; from a short narrow, slightly dark passage you’d be welcome by primeval effigies of warrior era. On the left you will find gallery of art pieces and books along with an eatery.When walk past that you will see wall painted with royal elephants fighting and horses behind them with marquise and royalties perch on them.
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Past the
gallery of Bhuta
sculpture, through the
thatched corridor and
quadrangle of purple
leaves you’d see
Audio Visual Room.
They will run a
short movie of
endeavour on exploring
splendid art form
of our country.
Movie reveals that
how enrich our
country is with
beatific art forms
that are created
by village people
at faraway lands.
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That art
form that I
happen to see
was Ponchu Cups
which were not
at the display
anywhere in the
museum.
Doors of
engraved art tells
you that our
heritage belongs to
those who had
exert their talent
in tactile art
forms than in
gossiping on whatsApp.
Wooden Chariot
is from Maharashtra.
It is ceremonial
chariot of Lord
Rama used for
holy processions; pulled
by devotees with
tied ropes in
iron rings on the front
and back of
it. This is
Lord Rama’s Ratha
and one could
see canopy of
carved deities from
all four sides
of it.
Village milieu
imparts serenity that
is not there
in resplendently decorative
lounges. It depicts
how people in
villages live simple
and plain life. Giant Pot
could serve whole
village. Mud houses
of thatched roofs.
Closely built
houses also tells
that people in
Villages live relatively
close alike the
people in towns. Gandhi JI
said that ‘India
lives in villages’.
Sure it does
for the major
part of our
population dwells on rural lands.
Such lands--imbue with
rich heritage culture--lay
faraway. But one could view
all that: Village
Life; Vivid and
varied cultures; Plethora
of Art forms
of India at
Craft Museum Delhi.