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reminiscing_history Bringing ruins to life through digital art. Reimagining lost monuments with research, memory, and imagination. by Parnavi Bangar

Reminiscing History is a digital art series that brings old ruins back to life founded by Ar. Parnavi Bangar. Through research-based illustrations, we reimagine how destroyed monuments once looked. From Hampi to Angkor Wat, our work revives forgotten heritage and sparks curiosity about history. Each piece is rooted in real evidence and aims to add meaning, beauty, and memory to what time has taken away.

A new book by Reminiscing History is coming!Pre-order with the link in my bio!After 'Reminiscing Hampi', we are now brin...
17/08/2026

A new book by Reminiscing History is coming!
Pre-order with the link in my bio!

After 'Reminiscing Hampi', we are now bringing you 'Hampi, Memory of a City, launching on 15 August 2026.

This book looks at Hampi through its history, architecture, and stories, covering the monuments across Hampi and important sites in its surrounding landscape that are often missed.

While Reminiscing Hampi brings lost monuments back to life through research-based illustrations, Hampi, Memory of a City gives you the history and context behind the places you see.

Together, the two books offer a more complete way to explore and understand Hampi.

Pre-orders are now open!

Sarnath has officially been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site! A well deserved recognition.The place where Gauta...
29/07/2026

Sarnath has officially been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site!
A well deserved recognition.

The place where Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon and where the Buddhist Sangha was first formed. Home to ancient monasteries, stupas, remarkable sculptures, the Ashokan Pillar, and centuries of archaeological treasures, Sarnath stands as one of the world's most significant Buddhist sites. Its art, architecture, and history continue to inspire us across generations.

A place we've had the chance of reimagining through our illustrations! Find more about these illustrations on our website.

05/07/2026

Cave paintings in Hampi:

Hidden among the boulders of Hampi lies a history far older than its temples. Long before the rise of the Vijayanagara Empire, Hampi was inhabited by humans across multiple ages, from the Stone Age to the Neolithic period, and the evidence still survives in its rock shelters.

Scattered across sites near Pampa Sarovar, Chakratirtha and the hill opposite the Balakrishna Temple are prehistoric rock paintings believed to be thousands of years old. Made using mineral pigments, especially red ochre created from iron-rich earth and natural binders, these single-line paintings depict birds, bulls, deer, fish, snakes, dancing humans, rituals, and everyday life.

Hampi is not just a medieval landscape of ruins. It has been a living human landscape for thousands of years, carrying stories from some of the earliest communities who once called this place home.

Find out more in our blog.. link in bio.

Rockcut caves, temples, cave paintings, stone age, prehistoric times, evidence archeology architecture

Reminiscing History is hosting another curated experience in collaboration with yatrautsavofficial Join us in my journey...
27/06/2026

Reminiscing History is hosting another curated experience in collaboration with yatrautsavofficial Join us in my journey to Hampi and let me show you the modern day ruin along with the reimagined echoes of its glory days.

The registration is via the link in Parnavi Bangar bio.

Please fill the form to receive all the details along with the itinerary. Feel free to reach out to me for more information.



What’s Included:

• Complimentary 'Reminiscing Hampi' book
• Accommodation (twin sharing)
• All meals during the trip
• Guided heritage tour
• Monument entry tickets
• Local travel within Hampi by auto rickshaw
• Railway station pickup & drop
• Curated storytelling experience by Reminiscing History

Not Included:

• Travel to and from Hampi
• Personal expenses/shopping
• Snacks or meals outside the itinerary
• Pickup from airport

I have conducted many tours to Hampi, for book launch, for exhibition, for Times of India, for Architecture students.

It is my passion to research and now it is my hobby to take people to my favourite places. The tour is an insight into the history and significance of Hampi with my touch of architecture and revival.

The seats are limited so please fill the form now! If you are a traveller who is all about knowing everything about the place in detail.

Reminiscing Hampi is an experiential guide book that has illustrations of revived broken monuments with the help of research, printed on to transparent clear films for people to view in front of the monument such that it completes it.

A free copy of Reminiscing Hampi by Parnavi Bangar is provided with the yatra and we will get to experience the book together in Hampi in front of all the monuments and the stories behind the illustrations.

Hampi is my favourite place and I have a treasure of photographs from the place. I know spots, I know places and timings and sunsets that I plan for the people visiting Hampi with me to experience.

So fill the form now with the link in my bio to get more details and to confirm the tour as soon as possible.

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