Culture of Khajuraho

The Khajuraho group of monuments is based in Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh state of India. Considered in the list of seven wonders of India they are in the World Heritage Sites announced by UNESCO. From the initial about 60 temples built during 10Th to 12Thcentury AD, now only about 25 temples remain in a respectable fashion and hence can be appreciated.  The explicit sexual matter has not been depicted inside the temples but it finds the place on the exteriors of the temple walls. Also only 10% of the carvings show sexual scenes other sculptures depict everyday life of the common peoples of those times, like women putting on makeup, Potters, Musicians, Farmers and other peoples. All these carvings are at some distances from the Temple deities.
 The temples are now nicely decorated in parkland landscape. It has a public park type look with mowed grass, rose beds and ornamental trees, earlier it was in a state of neglect with landscape setting as a semi desert and scrub. Every evening professional light and sound show is held in the lawns of the temple complex, both in English and Hindi language, of one hour each, the show gives the history, Philosophy and the art of sculpting these temples.The Khajuraho dance festival is held every year in the month of February / March. The programmers arrange top Indian classical dance and music shows. Many Indian as well as Foreign tourists visit Khajuraho then, and appreciate the Indian arts in the backdrop of Chitragupta or Vishwanath Temples. Recently The Archaeological Survey of India has discovered a site which is coming up as the largest underground temple in Khujraho. The digging of the site has begun and will take a couple of years to complete.