Rajasthan’s Badshah Miyan takes 700-year-old leheriya craft & natural dyes to the world

When Mughal emperor Jahangir passed away in1627, a black turban with silver thread was specially [...]

Kavishala: A personal blog that’s now a global publishing platform for poets and writers

Akib Javed is a teacher from the little-known town of Bisanda Buzurg in Uttar Pradesh’s [...]

From ragi momos to snails, how tribal food is becoming the ambassador for Jharkhand’s indigenous culture

As you enter Ajam Emba on Kanke Road of Ranchi, Jharkhand, you are greeted by [...]

How COVID-19 and India-China tensions have changed India’s 900-year-old Patan Patola weaving

The ancient Silk Route, connecting China with the West, passed through India. And Indians bought [...]

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Buried at birth, how Gulabo Sapera survived to become the global ambassador of Rajasthan’s Kalbelia folk dance

Kalbelia dancer Gulabo Sapera’s story is a prime example of the stigma associated with being [...]

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How one family has taken India’s 1,000-year-old temple architecture to the world

Sometime in 2008, the over 500-year-old Gunja Narasimha Swami temple in Karnataka was in dire [...]

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CtoK: Empowering Kashmiri artisans to turn entrepreneurs

More than two centuries ago, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte gifted his wife Josephine a Kashmiri [...]

Soaking, boiling, dyeing, washing…the creation of Madhya Pradesh’s Bagh print in pictures

Bagh print is a traditional Indian handicraft where wooden hand blocks are used to print [...]

How Nizamabad’s 500-year-old black pottery is regaining lost glory

Surendra Kumar Prajapati stands in a 1.5-foot deep pit filled with clay from a nearby [...]

Dogri songs by Jammu siblings win hearts across the world

Since 2011, a brother-sister duo in Jammu has been singing songs in their mother tongue, [...]

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