Art and Culture - Link

Centre for Cultural Resource and Training, India - CCRTIndia

The website of the institution can be found here.

The site is particularly helpful for our Art and Culture preparation for Prelim. It is one of the few comprehensive and authoritative sites on Indian Arts and Culture. There are three sections namely, Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literary Arts. The topics covered in these sections are -

Visual Arts - Indian Architecture, Indian Sculpture, Indian Painting
Performing Arts - Dances, Music, Theatre Forms, Puppet Forms
Literary Arts - Ancient to Contemporary Literature

The institution was started by Kamaladevi Chattopadhya and Kapila Vatsayan (both Padma Vibhushan awardees) about 4 decades ago.

Kamaladevi Chattopdhyay is most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence movement; for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India; and for upliftment of the socio-economic standard of Indian women by pioneering the co-operative movement. Its not possible to record the post-independence cultural renaissance in the country without acknowledging Kamaladevi's monumental contributions. She is the one who made the terracotta Bankura Horse the emblem of Indian Handicraft. You can read an article on Kamaladevi by Ramchandra Guha published in TheHindu to grasp the vista of this immense personality.

Kapila Vatsayan is a leading Indian scholar of classical Indian dance, Indian art and Indian architecture and art historian. She was the also founder director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi, and continues as its chairperson. She has also served as secretary to the government of India and the Ministry of Education, department of Arts and Culture, in which she was responsible for the establishment of many institutions of higher education in India. She is also the chairperson of Asia Project, of India International Centre (IIC), Delhi.

Reference - Wikipedia