of External Affairs, Government of India. It has extensive interviews with the Dalai Lama. The film has won several International Film Festival Awards, including at the prestigious Madrid International Film Festival. Press reports about the acclaimed film are on the links below. Series of films on 'Spectacular India' The Hindu newspaper states: "Art historian and filmmaker Benoy K Behl has completed shooting and documentation of the culture of the six North-Eastern states and West Bengal for his series on Doordarshan titled "Spectacular India". The 52 film series also showcases the tribal dances of the North-East states." India has a rich variety of culture, landscape, architecture, traditions, customs, dances and music. This series of films presents significant glimpses of this "spectacular country". These 52 films take us on an enthralling journey from the Kashmir Valley to Kanyakumari and from Tripura to the coast of Maharashtra. The camera takes us into the lives of the forgotten Aryan tribes living in a remote corner of Ladakh, who wear numerous fresh flowers in their head-dress every day; to the invisible Aakash Linga in the Chidambaram Temple in Tamil Nadu; to the frozen icy deserts of Spiti; to the great Nunnery of Buddhist Anis in remote Arunachal Pradesh and to the exquisite Raas Lila of Manipur. Doordarshan' series of 26 films 'The Paintings of India' by Benoy K Behl In the words of Anandajoti posted on Dharma Documentaries: "Benoy Behl is one of the great art historians of India, and I have shown his films on Buddhist art on another post; and also his articles on Indian art. Last year I was fortunate enough to be given six DVDs containing his whole series of 26 films on the subject of the Paintings of India, which was broadcast in 2005, and it took me nearly six months to savour them all. Now Benoy Behl has made excerpts from the series, and uploaded them to his YouTube site, and I have made two playlists of them which I embed today and next week." Doordarshan's series, "The Paintings of India" is the first major work which connects the tradition of paintings from the time of Ajanta to the present day. The films show many sites of paintings which have never been clearly photographed before. A vast archive of over 2500 selected masterpieces of Indian miniature paintings has been created in this series. The best paintings from the reserve