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INCREDIBLE INDIA: INDO-GREEK RELATION

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POMPEII YAKSHI (LAKSHMI)  The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE. It was found in 1938 by an Italian scholar Amedeo Maiuri. The statuette has been dated to the first-century CE. Originally, it was thought that the statuette represented the goddess Lakshmi, a goddess of fertility, beauty and wealth, revered by early Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. However, the iconography, in particular the exposed genitals, reveals that the figure is more likely to depict a yakshi, a female tree spirit that represents fertility, or possibly a syncretic version of Venus-Sri-Lakshmi from an ancient exchange between Classical Greco-Roman and Indian cultures. The yakshi is evidence of commercial trade between India and Rome in the first century CE.  Its: Height: 24.5 cm ,Material : Ivory, Discovered : 1930–1938. Based on archeological finds and historian work, Its origin is not entirely cert...
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Wetlands in India and their importance amid climate change concerns

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Did you know? ✅They are termed as nature’s kidney ✅They can store 1.5 million gallons of floodwater in just an acre of land preventing floods to occur? ✅They are considered to be a vital link between land and water  ✅They provide various services to different species.  Wetlands are considered to be a vital link between land and water that provides various services to different species. For example, wetlands are a source of fresh water, they habitat many unique plants and animals, and help in groundwater recharge along with climate change mitigation. Wetlands have been disappearing steadily yet rapidly due to agricultural runoff with pesticides, construction of dams and barrages, and the dumping of garbage and domestic effluents in the water. As a result, not only plants and species suffer extinction, local communities living around wetlands also lack a source of livelihood. The Ramsar Convention established in 1971 by UNESCO, that promotes the conservation and judicious use o...
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