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This Woman’s Heartfelt Videos Will Give You a New Love For Kashmiri Culture
Daneen (name changed), a Kashmiri woman in her seventies, would eagerly wait for her friend, Dida, who is half her age, every day. Daneen’s Alzheimer’s and deteriorating health may not have allowed her...
View ArticleBluff & Bridge, Move Over! India has a Unique, Ancient Card Game Once Loved...
With the advent of technology, many forms of traditional arts and games have faded away. Ganjifa is one such game, lost to the sands of time. The origins of this ancient Indian card game can be traced...
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For Decades, Varanasi Family Teaches Indian Classical Music To 10000 Across...
Not too far from the ghat, sprawled along the River Ganga are the famous gullies and pedestrian alleys of Dashashwamedh area in Varanasi. No more than 6 feet wide, these ever tangling maze-like lanes...
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25-YO Son Of Driver & Domestic Help Battles Poverty To Rise As Kuchipudi Dancer
Up until the age of 11, Sai Venkat Gangadhar from Hyderabad had never heard of a dance form called Kuchipudi. This made sense, seeing as how, growing up in the slums of Mastan Nagar Basti, close to...
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Musicians Across India Rely On This Kerala Family’s 200-YO Legacy Of Mridangams
Dr. Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan from Kerala’s Palakkad district holds five Guinness World Records for his marathon performances, in which he plays the Mridangam, a Carnatic instrument, for the longest...
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Tamil Artist Uses Kolam to Transform Couple’s Home, Paints 55 Panels in a Week
In southern India, it’s common to see women drawing intricate patterns or kolams every morning just outside their front door. The kolam is drawn at the threshold of one’s home using rice flour – which...
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At 58, Manipur Artist Makes 100-YO Doll Making Tradition His Own, Boosts His...
Konsam Ibomcha Singh of Imphal East, Manipur, was born to National Awardee parents. His father, Konsam Tona Singh, had won the award in the Dolls and Toys category and mother, Konsam Ongbi Gambhini...
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Dangal To Baahubali: Mumbai Artist Uses Mundane Items To Create Magic in 3000...
Amidst the backdrop of World War II, two individuals are putting their lives at stake to support the Indian National Army (INA) by transporting a gem-encrusted sword to its members, to be used as...
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Pt Ravi Shankar Held His 1st Western Performance In This Unknown Indian’s Centre
Perhaps one of the greatest unions in the history of music is that of Pandit Ravi Shankar and former Beatle George Harrison. Their meeting in 1966 birthed an instant yet unlikely connection and albums...
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Lost a Leg, Won Hearts at India’s Got Talent, Shed 20 Kgs: This Dancer is...
DDressed in a bright pink top and a short green ghagra(skirt), Subhreet Kaur Ghumman set the stage of India’s Got Talent (IGT) on fire in 2014. A resident of Chandigarh, Subhreet performed on ‘Chikni...
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The Fate of a Rare Dying Art Rests on The Lips of This 20-YO Kerala Girl
I n 2008, after performing a rare art form of puppetry called ‘Nokkuvidya Pavakkali’ in Paris, artist and Padma Shri awardee Moozhikkal Pankajakshi found herself at a crossroads. She was the last...
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In the 1970s, India’s First Rock Band Was Born In The Backyard of A Kolkata Home
From the ’50s till the ’70s, Kolkata (then Calcutta) witnessed a surge of refugees after the Partition of India. These were decades of chaos but also of a social and cultural awakening, where different...
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32000 Km And 500 towns: Mumbai Photographer’s Journey to Save Single-Screen...
For the last 17 years, Hemant Chaturvedi always began the new year with a travel ritual. A Mumbai-based photographer and cinematographer, he travels all the way to Prayagraj (earlier known as...
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As Artwork Worth Lakhs Lies Unsold, Odisha Artists Paint Homes With Ancient Art
Raghunath, a resident of Odisha’s Raghurajpur village, is a fourth generation artist engaged in Pattachitra, a cloth-based scroll painting. This art form dates back to the 12th century. In the last 22...
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Fourth-Generation Doc Quits UK Job To Form An Orchestra Of Underprivileged Kids
Growing up in Goa, Dr Luis Dias (55) always found solace in music. It was a big part of his life, he recalls, right from his visits to church. But without the presence of the internet, he notes, it was...
View ArticleWatch: Farmers Turn Fields Into Canvas, Wow the Internet With Viral Paddy Art
Did you know that a small village named Inakadate in Japan makes art out of paddy growing in large fields? The practice, which is called Tanbo art, was started in 1993 by farmers in the village who...
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India’s First Intimacy Coordinator From Mumbai Is Making ‘On-screen...
In 2018, India’s social climate experienced a transformation like no other. A clarion call for sexual violence survivors, the #MeToo movement allowed thousands of people to share their accounts of...
View ArticleThe Time I Met Legend Dilip Kumar, the Powerhouse of Indian Acting
“Ae waqt aaj tu tham ja…” is how I felt when I saw my idol dressed in white trousers, a shirt and sandals, walking down the stairs of his palatial Pali Hill bungalow in Bandra, Mumbai. He walked...
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Amid the Pandemic, Twitter Generates Several Lakhs in Revenue For Pattachitra...
Bipin Das, 43, has spent the last 26 years burning the midnight oil to keep a dying art alive. A skilled senior Pattachitra artist based out of a small village near Raghurajpur, Odisha, he dedicates...
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They Taunted Him For His ‘Naach’. 84 Years Later, India Awarded Him the Padma...
Ramchandra Manjhi may have won the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award and Sangeet Natak Akademi, but his biggest achievement is something else. A resident of Bihar’s Chapra district, he...
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