The ancient trade route that connected the Orient with the West was the subject of a two-day seminar at The K. R. Cama Oriental Institute
Farrokh Jijina
"The words ‘Silk Road’ conjure up, for most people, images of caravans of camels and their tinkling bells,” according to associate professor and head of East Asia division of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Dr Radha Bannerjee Sarkar. She was delivering the inaugural address at The K. R. Cama Oriental Institute’s annual seminar titled "From Nisa to Niya: Reappraising cultural conduits and commercial centres along the Silk Road,” on January 6 and 7, 2018. "The name is a misnomer,” she said, explaining that other commodities like gold, precious and semiprecious stones, ivory, coral, furs, spices and glassware......