Olkaan Nishtah included in – The Jewellery Trendbook 2024 Forecast

Olkaan Nishtah has been honoured by being included in the prestigious – The Jewellery Trendbook 2024 Forecast https://www.trendvisionforecasting.com/ The Jewellery Trendbook is the definitive guide to trends in the International jewellery market. Divided by thematic areas, The Jewellery Trendbook describes evolution of the consumption in the luxury market and takes Continue Reading

The Bangle is the Brand

From Top to Bottom in Photo – Precious Indian Chalcedony Bangle inlayed Kundan setting with table cut natural light Yellow Diamonds (1 matching pair – two bangles), Precious Indian Chalcedony Bangle inlayed Kundan setting with natural Indian Grape Garnet cabochon, Precious Indian Chalcedony inlayed Kundan setting with natural Burmese Blue Continue Reading

Natural Pearl Drilling

The art of natural Pearl drilling has been done in India for centuries. The city of Basra, in present-day Iraq was the main trading centre for the natural pearls found in the gulf between Qatar and Bahrain. These natural pearls became known as Basra Moti (Pearls of Basra) throughout Asia. Continue Reading

Adhiraj Singh with His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla

His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla of The Sheikhdom of Umm Al Quwain receiving a safa (turban) from Graf Adhiraj Singh giving our esteems from our family to his. His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla invited Adhiraj Singh and Shanane to The United Arab Emirates to Continue Reading

Adhiraj Singh and Olkaan Nishtah at the Global Investment Growth Summit

The charming and charismatic Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik – Chairman of The Council for Indian Foreign Policy and statesman journalist with Adhiraj Singh at the Global Investment Growth Summit in The United Arab Emirates – Graciously hosted by His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla of The Sheikhdom of Continue Reading

The Jaipur Crafts Festival at Jaipur Modern

The Jaipur Crafts Festival – March 11th to 13th, 2022 The event celebrated Olkaan Nishtah and our craft revival initiative along with Antaran, a craft-based livelihood program. The festival spotlighted India’s fabulous traditional methods of material cultural patronage, fresh, technocratic research and data-driven approaches to the enterprise and culture of Continue Reading

The Bikaner Theatre, Art and Cultural Festival: Jan 15th to 30th, 2021

Manot – The dust that raised a Jawahar in the desert – Bikaner – In conversation with Shanane Davis and Graf Adhiraj Singh https://olkaannishtah.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Shanane-Davis-and-Graf-Adhiraj-Singh.mp4 The sublime usage of iconography to portray power and politics in South Asian Painting – In discussion with Shanane Davis, Graf Adhiraj Singh and Vinit Vyas Continue Reading

Phenomenal She Award

At the Constitution Club of India on the 7th of March, 2021 Shanane Davis was honoured with being recognized as one of the 100 leading ladies of India for her contribution to Indian art and material culture. The reception was organised by INBA, The Indian National Bar Association. The Honourable Continue Reading

The Laud Rāgamālā Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting

The Laud Ragamala Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting is a tale of two present-day “Indiana Joneses”art historian Professor Molly Emma Aitken and Connoisseur Shanane Davis who made an extraordinary discovery regarding the most famous Indian muraqqa (album book with miniature paintings and calligraphy) found in a European Continue Reading

Old Methods in a New Era What can Connoisseurship Tell us about Rukn‐Ud‐Din?

Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis, Yana van Dyke Book Editor(s): Rebecca M. Brown, Deborah S. Hutton First published 26, July, 2012 – Copyright 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Chapter available for purchase following the below link   https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396355.ch10 Olkaan Nishtah