Kharchi Puja: Where Fourteen Deities Cleanse the Soul of Tripura
Every year in the monsoon month of Ashar, the ancient city of Old Agartala holds its breath for seven days...
Yaoshang Festival: The Spring That Lights Up Manipur
Every spring in Manipur, something quietly extraordinary happens. The full moon rises over the Kangla plains, bonfires crackle through the...
Savitribai Phule: School That Changed India’s History
Savitribai Phule walked to school every morning in Pune in 1848 carrying a spare sari in her bag, not for...
Hidden Networks of Aruna Asaf Ali During Underground Years
On the morning of 9 August 1942, while every senior Congress leader in India was being arrested in a coordinated...
Strength of Kushal Konwar and the Assam Martyrs of 1942
On the morning of 15 June 1943, Kushal Konwar walked to the gallows in Jorhat Central Jail with a composure...
The Mythological World Woven Inside a Baluchari Saree
Hidden inside the folds of a Baluchari saree is an entire civilization. Woven into pure mulberry silk on pit looms...
How Banjara Embroidery Maps the Journeys of a Nomadic People
Every stitch in a Banjara embroidery piece holds a direction. The mirrors catch light the way open roads catch sunlight...
Cowries, Coins, and Textile Memory of the Lambadi Tribe
A Lambadi woman stitching cowrie shells onto a ceremonial cloth is not simply decorating fabric. She is embedding currency, memory,...
The Disputed and Fascinating Origins of Kashmiri Pashmina
Nobody knows exactly when the first Pashmina shawl was woven in Kashmir. The fiber itself has been combed from the...
How Phulkari Embroidery Became a Celebration of Womanhood in Punjab
A Phulkari shawl is never made for a stranger. It is made by a grandmother for a granddaughter, by a...
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