For twenty-one days before the Odia New Year, a group of male devotees in Odisha called Danduas submit themselves to...

The Toda people of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu do not simply keep buffaloes. They have organized their entire...

The Warli tribe of Maharashtra's Palghar district has been painting on the walls of their homes for thousands of years...

The havelis of Shekhawati were built by merchants who spent most of their lives far from home, trading across India...

S.H. Raza spent decades painting in Paris before he found the single image that would define everything he had been...

Abanindranath Tagore looked at the oil paintings filling the walls of colonial Calcutta and made a deliberate decision to turn...

Tanjore paintings were never meant to be admired from across a room. They were made to be approached slowly, examined...

On the night of April 18, 1930, a schoolteacher from Chittagong led sixty-five young men and women in a coordinated...

In the summer of 1915, a Bengali revolutionary with a reputation for fighting tigers with his bare hands was waiting...

Begum Hazrat Mahal was not supposed to lead a revolution. She had been a courtesan, then a royal wife, then...