Ameesha Raizada, Author at Media India Group

Traveller’s diary: in and around London

February 8, 2018

The memories of London induce nostalgia for the feeling of belongingness to a city which fuses modernity with age-old culture so neatly, that it appears to be a different era altogether.

The Bollywood rhapsody

February 2, 2018

India has eras of filmi (movie-specific) music, and Bollywood stuck with its dance routines and musical numbers in movies, in contrast to western cinema. We discover how this characteristic companion works well for the audience targeted. The film rolls, animating the screen, whi...

The tradition of Aipan

January 22, 2018

Understanding a craft of religious importance, and how the ways and motifs of Aipan are being preserved by artistically devoted women in Nainital, the city of lakes in Uttarakhand. Sunlight shyly seeped in through a veil against the window and fell over five women dressed in plai...

Panorama of the Desert Mountains in Himachal Pradesh

January 8, 2018

Glimpsed through the valleys of Himalayas, rain shadow areas in the state of Himachal draw travellers in all seasons to frozen lakes, adventurous treks and off-roading routes. Visualise waking up to a bird’s eye view of greenery laden mountains with elfin houses scattered over ...

Musical beats from a faraway land

January 6, 2018

Learn to play the Didgeridoo, a musical instrument echoing traditions of the aboriginals, at a studio on the banks of river Ganga in the northern state of Uttarakhand. Sometimes the intersection of lives unites different cultures by passing on a legacy, and when a language as uni...