On the second day after Diwali, across the length and breadth of India and wherever Indian communities have carried their...

Mirabai walked away from one of the most powerful royal households in Rajasthan not in anger but in devotion, carrying...

High in the Indus valley of Ladakh, at an altitude where the air is thin and the sky is a...

On one night every year in the heart of old Bengaluru, a man dressed as a woman walks barefoot through...

Peer Ali Khan was a bookseller in Patna who organized an armed uprising against British colonial rule in June 1857,...

The Bhotiya weavers of the Uttarakhand Himalayas have been spinning wool at altitudes where most things do not grow and...

On a single night in 1825, the Paliwal Brahmin community of Kuldhara and eighty-three surrounding villages in the Thar Desert...

Titu Singh was born in Agra in 1983, and before he was old enough to attend school he was telling...

In the high-altitude village of Gue in Spiti Valley, at roughly ten thousand feet above sea level in the cold...

There is a stretch of road on the Leh-Kargil highway in Ladakh, about thirty kilometres from Leh at an altitude...