Wilting Flowers ≠ Waste: 5 Smart & Simple Home Hacks to Reuse Leftover Blossoms!
In just a couple of months, India will get ready to celebrate festivals and even the wedding ‘season’ is not too far away. Flowers make for popular presents, and while they pop out the colours of your...
View ArticleWith 5 Lakh Views, This Talented UP Egg-Seller is India’s Next YouTube...
He has an amazing voice, but for years it languished. Thankfully, Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushal Nishad is slowly but surely getting his due. The youth, who spent dreamless nights, wondered whether singing...
View Article5 Brilliant Female Artists Taking Over India’s Street Art Scene!
A dash of colour, and myriad shapes come alive. Art is the best way for man to showcase and feel emotion. Well, outside the obscure realm of fancy art galleries with indecipherable paintings worth...
View ArticleMade of Walnut Hulls, Veggies & Flowers, These Crayons Are Completely Organic!
Art was one of my most favourite subjects in school. Every Wednesday, one hour was dedicated to sketching, drawing and colouring—my school somehow knew that this break would refresh the students like...
View ArticleIn Pics: Check Out This Award-Winning Artwork Made Entirely From Bacteria!
Can bacteria like Staphylococcus or Salmonella be turned into art? Well, the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), believes that it is quite possible! At the recently held ASM Agar Art contest 2018,...
View ArticleHuman Hair to Bacteria: 12 Indian Artists Creating Wonderfully Weird...
Given the fact that art has no boundaries and can be created out of the most mundane things and settings, artists across the world have often ventured away from the world of paints and dry colours to...
View ArticleAisha Choudhary, the Brave Girl Who Inspired Priyanka Chopra’s ‘The Sky Is Pink’
Inspiring the millions of people, including youngsters, women, and aspiring actors who look up to her, Priyanka Chopra has made her mark in the Indian film industry, as well as Hollywood. Whether it is...
View ArticleExclusive: This Mumbai Woman Is a Domestic Help by Day, Stand-Up Comic by Night!
She wakes up at 4:00 a.m., gets ready and rushes to the local train station in Mumbai—not just to get to work, but to sell imitation jewellery to passengers on the train. By 6:30, after finishing her...
View ArticleExclusive: How Can You ‘Paint’ with Paddy? Let India’s Sole Paddy Artist Show...
In India, the odds of coming across a paddy field that has been raised to appear as an image is almost null. By ‘image,’ what we mean is creating impressively detailed tableaus out of thousands of...
View ArticleWho Am I: 25-YO Hyderabad Dancer Will Make You Question Gender Norms
Patruni Chidananda Sastry 25-year-old Patruni Chidananda Sastry is a resident of Hyderabad who describes himself as an expressionist dancer and activist. Sastry, as he is popularly known, started...
View ArticleMarried at 12, Vegetable Vendor’s Wife Rises from Street Dweller to Global...
Shakila Sheikh lives in a simple house, located 30 km away from Kolkata. Every day, she cooks and tends to her family, like any ordinary woman in her village. But when inspiration strikes, Shakila...
View ArticleThis Oscar-Winning IIT Grad from Pune Has Changed the Face of Hollywood...
Have you, like a million others, marvelled at the animation and special effects in movies like Beowulf, The Amazing Spider-Man, Watchmen, Hancock, Bewitched, The Smurfs 2, or Monster House? While...
View ArticleIndia Has 95% of World’s Handwoven Fabric: How We Can Save This Heritage!
It was 7th August 1905, when leaders of the freedom movement like Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and several others started a Swadeshi Movement asking Indians...
View ArticleMystery of Pompeii Lakshmi: The 2000-YO Link Between India & the Roman Empire!
The ruins of Pompeii are undoubtedly one of the most significant historical pieces of evidence that give one a remarkably detailed insight into the life of an ancient city, which was once an integral...
View ArticleFrom Germany to New Zealand, This 89-YO Granny’s Potli Bags are a Global Hit!
Age is just a number, is a timeless phrase which debunks the myth that only the youth have the ability to chase a dream or achieve a milestone. In fact, for those passionately driven by ambitions, age...
View ArticleCan Street Theatre Boost Citizen Health? This Ahmedabad Project Will Show You...
Theatre can go beyond just delighting the audience–it can break out of the straitjacket and be a mirror to contemporary society by raising awareness about urgent issues or argue for change. It can...
View ArticleFree to Be: When Dance Healed Scars Left by Trafficking, Domestic Violence
What does dance mean to you? For some people, it’s a way to convey a message or a medium for social interaction, others practise it as a fitness regime. Then there are those people who dance simply for...
View ArticleMaster of Miniatures: Chennai Girl’s ‘Oorugami’ Takes Social Media By Storm!
A simple origami boat that Chennai girl, Oorjitha Dogiparthi, crafted when she was barely four years old, was the beginning of a lifelong fascination with the medium of paper artistry. Today, the...
View ArticleA New Age Manto: This Heroine’s Goddess Creations Smash Society’s Chains on...
This article has been sponsored by Viacom 18 Goddesses of fertility, knowledge, luck, wealth and prosperity – most households have symbols or idols of them in their prayer rooms. They are held in...
View ArticleModern Day Manto: Delhi Man’s Puppets Talk about Sex & Gender, Are you...
This article has been sponsored by Viacom 18 When he was only nine, his mother gifted Varun a Christmas magazine. In the hobby section, there were pages on how to make finger puppets. It was as if a...
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