Maluti: Jharkhand’s 17th-century terracotta temples built by royal women to outdo each other

Maluti, a remote village in the Dumka district of Jharkhand, would perhaps have remained anonymous [...]

Bhunga: The 200-year-old earthquake-resistant mud houses of Kutch

The 1819 earthquake in the Rann of Kutch led to over 1500 deaths. Though the [...]

Ramlilas across the world show the enduring influence of the Ramayana

The Sanskrit epic, Ramayana, written by Maharishi Valmiki tells the story of Lord Rama, prince [...]

The golden Goddess who appears from a bank vault at Joypur Rajbari during Durga Puja

Autumn heralds the homecoming of Goddess Durga from her heavenly abode in Mount Kailasha. There [...]

Fighting a shadowy foe: My lifelong struggle against schizophrenia

As is universally known, psychiatric illness is an extremely serious issue and can play sheer [...]

Popularising & preserving ethnic cuisines of Parsis and Bannuwal Hindus

India is home to many ethnic cuisines. From the Badagas of Nilgiris to Oraons of [...]

Man-animal conflict: Tiger attack survivors in Sundarbans share their stories

It was six in the morning when Tarak Mistri debarked from his anchored dinghy into [...]

Imran Qureshi: UP’s paraplegic man motivates wheelchair-bound people to live independently & confidently

Lakhan Singh, 31, works with the Rajasthan State Electricity Board. In 2014, while working on [...]

In pictures: Morena’s Chausath Yogini temple that inspired the Indian Parliament’s design

It is well known that the Parliament House at Sansad Marg in New Delhi was [...]

Anjani Gupta: The gritty mom from UP’s Sultanpur who defied odds to become an athlete

For a young girl from a small town in Uttar Pradesh, pursuing her dream to [...]