Parchin kari, or pietra dura in Italian, is the art of marble inlay, which involves carving out marble slabs and inserting precious and semiprecious stones to create elaborate floral and geometric ...

Agra, or Akbarabad as it was once called, brings to the mind of a discerning traveller the image of the Taj Mahal. While there's so much more to the city, the marble mausoleum is all that is needed to ...

Families keep alive marble work of the Taj Mahal era Agra: Thousands of Muslim families here are diligently keeping alive the delicate craft of carving on marble that contributed to making the Taj ...

Jaipur: Marble carvings and inlay work for the flooring of the sanctum sanctorum of the Ram Mandir, being constructed in Ayodhya, is in its last leg. A Artisans and contractors at Makrana town in ...