Festivals of India

Every spring in Manipur, something quietly extraordinary happens. The full moon rises over the Kangla plains, bonfires crackle through the...

The masks of Purulia Chhau are not costumes. They are invocations. When a dancer in Purulia district straps on the...

The last generation of Konyak Naga men and women who carry the full record of their lineage on their faces...

Every year in Tamil Nadu, thousands of devotees walk barefoot across a bed of burning coals in an act of...

In the high-altitude monasteries of Ladakh, the chanting of Buddhist monks is not music in the way that word is...

The Kodava people of Kodagu in Karnataka are one of the very few communities in India granted the legal right...

In every Gurdwara, before the service begins and before anything else is offered to the congregation, the Karah Parshad is...

The Towers of Silence that rise above the forested hills of Malabar Hill in Mumbai are among the most private...

Before sunrise in millions of homes across Tamil Nadu, a woman steps out of her front door with a fistful...

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