Now, for students, a comprehensive and integrated knowledge base on the Indian arts, books, culture and the worlds of cinema in available on www.theosianama.com. This free online search-engine, in its first phase, will focus primarily on Hindi and Bombay cinema; the history of Indian modern and contemporary fine arts and its market; and the world of books, catalogues and newspaper clippings over the last 300 years. These worlds will be integrated with other popular art forms, such as antiquarian and contemporary photography (PHTO), print-making in all forms, hand-made crafts, select aspects of Indian and Asian Antiquity .
Students can now log on to the website for cultural artefacts, from lithographic and offset posters, lobby cards, show-cards , glass slides, scripts, costumes and the like, dating back to the start of the silent era.
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