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Walk down a narrow south Kolkata lane of Jadavpur to meet the happening baul couple of Utpal Fakir and Sahajma whose impassioned ‘Allah Meherban Khuda, Khuda Meherban’ took the musical world by storm.

Ghalib was a lover of mangoes and it is mentioned in Hali’s Yadgar-e-Ghalib that the poet was also very well versed with the history of mangoes. He was also credited with having tasted 4000 varieties of the fruit. This might be a funny incident but the truth is that Ghalib was the one who loved [...]

Built by Raja Surajmal to ward off the summer heat, the Deeg palace complex is an engineering marvel.

A new Rajasthani jewellery art form that is gaining popularity in India and abroad is inspired by Victorian designs. Called Sozo, this involves the blending of traditional Rajasthani jewellery art Thewa.

Over two centuries have gone by, and yet, the family of Vasant Rao carries on with a tradition of looking after an Imambara dedicated to Hazrat Imam Hussein in the tiny hamlet of Banda in Uttar Pradesh.

The venerable Amar Chitra Katha comics are a rare breed. Despite the blitz of television, the ambush of the internet and the blast of the play stations, these doughty and spirited comics have survived the sundry pressures of time. It continues to stand tall, even changing its packaging to be in tune with the times.

What began as exploratory studies in Kerala, has thrown up enough artefacts and structures of two millennia old Indo-Roman trade era to delight archaeologists, who are looking for the lost port of Muziris.

Call it a treasure trove of architecture hidden amidst lush green forests or the Khajuraho of Malnad, the Uma Maheshwara Temple near Hosagunda village of Sagar taluk in Shimoga district is a point of confluence between ‘nature’ and ‘civilisation’.

Partho Bhowmick of Mumbai saw an extraordinary opportunity in what most would have thought an indulgent gesture. He believed he could teach blind people photography.

Joe Madiath has been a perpetual rebel. His family’s efforts to discipline him by sending him to a boarding school has had no effect. And at age 16, he began to tour all over India on a bicycle, to understand the country.