
There is no idol in the innermost sanctum of the Kamakhya temple. There is a cleft in the rock, draped...

There is no idol in the innermost sanctum of the Kamakhya temple. There is a cleft in the rock, draped...

On Vishwakarma Puja, the machines go quiet. Across factories, workshops, garages, printing presses, and construction sites from Bengal to Karnataka,...

There is a moment in Chhath Puja that occurs twice, once at sunset and once at sunrise, when thousands of...

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...