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Celebrating Thai Pongal with Covid-19 clampdown
January 18, 2022
Around 250 km from Chennai, lies Pasar, a small village in Villupuram district. Home to about 6200 persons, Pasar was next to none in the manner in which it celebrated Pongal, one of the most important events in the Tamil calendar and which is celebrated around the world. ...
Read MoreDevotees throng churches to celebrate Christmas
December 25, 2021
The entire world takes some time off this time of the year. On December 25, people with their family and friends meet and celebrate the joyous birth of Lord Jesus by sharing laughs, cakes and cookies. Christmas also commemorates the spirit of giving, affection and encourages harm...
Read MoreFarmers Protest: A saga of sorrow and delight
December 13, 2021
“Jo bole so Nihaal! Sat Sri Akal” shouts a young boy, sitting in the driver’s seat on a tractor at the Singhu Border on Saturday as his family finished packing their belongings on the journey back home as the year-long farmers’ protest at Singhu Border was suspended by fa...
Read MoreFarmers protest: The year gone by
November 26, 2021
Over the past year, the farmers have made their homes at several border points of the national capital, notably Singhu and Tikri in north-west Delhi and Ghazipur in the east where they have been in a face off with the police and the government for an entire year. The uniqu...
Read MorePushkar Fair 2021: A carnival of cattle
November 22, 2021
India’s biggest fair for trading camels and other animals finally took place at Pushkar, about 300 km southwest of Jaipur, after a halt of two years. Though traditionally, Pushkar has more foreign tourists than animals and Indian tourists combined, however, this year the Pushka...
Read MoreThousands mark Chhath Puja 2021 in Delhi
November 11, 2021
It is still dark, with the dense, toxic smog that has come to symbolise New Delhi each winter, enveloping in a tight embrace the entire city and the Yamuna River, already covered with a dense toxic foam. As the city lights struggle to penetrate the poisonous air and even before t...
Read MoreAir pollution at record levels as firecracker ban ...
November 5, 2021
The biggest Indian festival of the year, Diwali, known in some places as Deepavali, is celebrated twenty days after Dussehra, and symbolises the spiritual victory of light over darkness and good over evil. During the festival, devotees usually pray to beautiful murtis of Lakshmi,...
Read MoreGhazipur flower market blooms again
November 3, 2021
As one enters the Ghazipur flower market one can only see heaps of colourful flowers spread across the entire market, sprawled on over 15 acres of land and considered to be the biggest flower market in India. Rose, lily, mogra, marigold, orchid, chrysanthemum, rajnigandha — you...
Read MoreDelhi’s transgenders lend helping hand to Yamuna...
October 25, 2021
On Saturday, Delhi-based NGO Aarohan came together with volunteers from AIIMS, Delhi Police and organisations like ISKCON and the Lahar Foundation to conduct a cleanup of the Yamuna River at ITO Chhat Ghat. The cleanup is an annual event and this year Aarohan, along with i...
Read MoreDiwali lights up Potters’ Village in Delhi
October 23, 2021
With Diwali and several other festivals just coming up, West Delhi’s “Kumhar Gaon” or Potter’s Village seems flooded with a wide range of artistic terracotta pottery creations, all made by artisans who have been practicing this art for several generations. The bigg...
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