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Celebrating Thai Pongal with Covid-19 clampdown

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. ...

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Devotees throng churches to celebrate Christmas

Devotees 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...

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Farmers Protest: A saga of sorrow and delight

Farmers 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...

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Farmers protest: The year gone by

Farmers 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...

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Pushkar Fair 2021: A carnival of cattle

Pushkar 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...

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Thousands mark Chhath Puja 2021 in Delhi

Thousands 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...

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Air pollution at record levels as firecracker ban on Diwali fails across north India

Air 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,...

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Ghazipur flower market blooms again

Ghazipur 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...

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Delhi’s transgenders lend helping hand to Yamuna clean up

Delhi’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...

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Diwali lights up Potters’ Village in Delhi

Diwali 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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