In pictures: India’s 7 lesser-known tourist destinations

From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, and Kutch to Kohima, India is full of wonderful places ideal [...]

How COVID-19 has changed India’s sex work industry

Within two days after the nationwide Coronavirus lockdown was imposed beginning March 25, Sharmishtha moved [...]

Two years of Sec 377 decriminalisation: Being gay in India & telling the world about it

Six years ago, if someone had told me that I could be writing an article [...]

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How Bihar’s Lahanti Club is preserving Santhali culture

Twelve-year-old Premlal and his friends spend hours every day in the paddy fields of their [...]

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Maharashtrian food in pictures

India is a diverse nation and its cuisines too vary from region to region. While [...]

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From pineapple to pepper, how organic farming is increasing farm incomes in India

Kakam Hang’s heart swells with pride every time he speaks about his village Molvom in [...]

How a Jharkhand schoolgirl, once teased as ‘Sulabh Shauchalaya’, is leading a ‘Swachhata’ mission

When 12-year-old Mondrita Chatterjee broke open her piggy bank in 2016 to contribute Rs 24,000 [...]

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102-year-old freedom fighter rues: ‘This is not the India we gave our blood for’

On the midnight of August 14, 1947, as India awoke to freedom and redeemed its [...]

Kashmir in pictures after abrogation of Article 370 & 35A

August 5 will remain a significant date in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. It [...]

India’s Tot people: Chased out of Assam & living in West Bengal in search of identity

From the platforms of Samuktala Road Rail Station in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district, clusters of [...]