{"id":78629,"date":"2026-03-19T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/?p=78629"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:35:34","slug":"ajantas-ancient-murals-decoded-in-a-new-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/archives\/78629","title":{"rendered":"Ajanta\u2019s ancient murals decoded in a new children\u2019s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FotoJet-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FotoJet-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FotoJet-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FotoJet-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FotoJet-3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>Two years ago, author Ashwin Prabhu stepped into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/how-insects-pests-wipe-off-ajanta-cave-paintings\/article29744712.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Ajanta<\/a>\u2019s dark caves with intention. \u201cI have always had a sense of the fact that this was a spectacular site and held a lot of value. I walked in knowing that I was going to write a book,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, author Ashwin Prabhu stepped into\u00a0Ajanta\u2019s dark caves with intention. \u201cI have always had a sense of the fact that this was a spectacular site and held a lot of value. I walked in knowing that I was going to write a book,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FotoJet-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78633,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78629\/revisions\/78633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}