Sholapith: Bengal’s eco-friendly ivory craft intrinsic to life and death

During rainy seasons, acres and acres of marshlands in West Bengal’s Sundarbans delta area are [...]

How a hobby made Patels the last custodians of Ahmedabad’s Ashavali sarees

Sometime in the late 1930s, a farmer in Ridrol village of Gujarat’s Mansa tehsil thought [...]

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Ode to potters this Diwali: video and pictures of making earthen diyas

Diwali is synonymous with lights and diyas. The little earthen lamps are not just sources [...]

In pictures: Dussehra customs from across India

Dussehra, also known as Vijay Dashami, is the tenth and final day of the Navaratri [...]

Maharashtra’s Chitrakathi painting: keeping alive the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s spies

Nestled in the pristine Sahyadri Hills of Maharashtra, Pinguli village in Sindhudurg district is home [...]

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Gujarat: no Garba, no Dandiya and scaled-down atonement for curse this Navratri

For the last 200 years, men living in Sadu Mata Ni Pol, a housing colony [...]

Bihar’s Sikki grass craft finds global market amid rising demand for eco-friendly artifacts

It’s 10am and Munni Devi in Raiyam village of Bihar’s Madhubani district is sitting alongside [...]

How Kutch’s Abdul Gafur Khatri is keeping alive 300-year-old Rogan art

Around 40 years back, Abdul Gafur Khatri left Nirona, a small village in the Kutch [...]

In pictures: Rajasthan’s traditional turbans & the man making them trendy

In the days of royalty and rigid social codes, the turban was an intrinsic part [...]

Bengal’s Natungram: Craft village where wooden dolls come alive

“Prosperity dwells in those Bengali households which keep at least one wooden owl stashed away [...]