Not to be over dramatic but you know what’s sad? Outgrowing the fictional characters you loved as a kid. Those characters who were dearer friends than any real person, those childhood crushes. They stay the same age, forever locked in the ink on the pages, whilst we grow up. We go from being younger than them and looking up to them as romodels, to being their age, and seeing them as equals, to growing older than them and seeing their mistakes, yet still loving them as if they were our younger siblings/own kids. That’s the funny thing about books I guess. They remain immortal while we pass them by.
The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India’s western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi’s Mayuresh Konnur reports.
The rock carvings - known as petroglyphs - have been discovered in their thousands atop hillocks in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra.
Mostly discovered in the Ratnagiri and Rajapur areas, a majority of the images etched on the rocky, flat hilltops remained unnoticed for thousands of years.
Most of them were hidden beneath layers of soil and mud. But a few were in the open - these were considered holy and worshipped by locals in some areas.
The sheer variety of the rock carvings have stunned experts - animals, birds, human figures and geometrical designs are all depicted. Read more.
Benjamin Matthew Victor is an American sculptor and Artist-in-Residence and Professor of the Practice at Boise State University. He is also the only living artist to have two works in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.
