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First Alvidah Jumma without Covid-19 curbs celebra...

April 30, 2022

The last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, called Jumma Alvidah, is an auspicious day for the Muslims as they bid farewell to the holiest period in the year and await it with the same eagerness and devotion the next year. On the occasion of Alvidah Jumma, thousands of devotees...

First Jumma Namaz at Jama Masjid in Delhi

April 9, 2022

Hundreds of devotees gathered at the Jama Masjid in Delhi on Friday evening to offer the namaz or prayers for the first Jumma (Friday) of the holy month of Ramzan. This was the first Ramzan to be observed without any Covid-19 restrictions and the faithful had turned out with grea...

Colleges come calling: Students excited to revisit...

February 17, 2022

Weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a general and very stringent lockdown shutting the entire country down on March 25, educational institutions had already been closed as a preventive measure to curb the spread of novel coronavirus that had started ravagin...

A burst of yellow: Basant Panchami at the Nizamudd...

February 7, 2022

Threads tied around the dargah multiply with wishes (mannat) sought by the devotees. People hailing from different parts of the country, following different faiths and belonging to different socio-economic classes gather here in hope the saint granting them their boon. Typ...

Homeless in Delhi: Surviving wet, windy winter

January 29, 2022

Earlier this week, a Delhi-based NGO Centre for Holistic Development that works for empowerment of the homeless, especially women, wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying that at least 106 homeless persons had succumbed to the extreme cold wave that has gripped the nationa...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...