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Army recruitment scheme: Government fails to douse Agnipath fires

Army recruitment scheme: Government fails to douse Agnipath fires

June 19, 2022

Caught totally by surprise over the widespread violent protests that have been taking place across India against the revised recruitment scheme for the Indian defence forces, the government has been trying various measures to ease the anger of the youth and restore peace as viole...

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India drapes in yellow to fete Basant Panchami

India drapes in yellow to fete Basant Panchami

February 5, 2022

Vasant Panchami falls on the fifth day of the month of Magha month of the Indian calendar, normally falling in late January or early February per the Georgian calendar. It marks the end of the most severe winter that grips the entire northern India and the beginning of thaw leadi...

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Bikaner camel festival: A captivating affair

Bikaner camel festival: A captivating affair

January 8, 2022

The Bikaner camel festival is an annual cultural event to celebrate the importance of camels in the local people’s life. The ‘camel country’, as Bikaner is popularly known, is located amid the Great Indian Desert in Thar in Rajasthan, painting the barren land colourful with...

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Where to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2023 in India

Where to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2023 in India

December 31, 2021

Almost in every part of the world, it has become a tradition to welcome the New Year with a great deal of festivity and cheer. For those who like to travel, it is one of the best moments to step out and hit some of their preferred destinations. Over the years, for the Indian tour...

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Ranthambore Tiger Reserve: In perpetual search of Sher Khan

Ranthambore Tiger Reserve: In perpetual search of Sher Khan

November 2, 2021

As the jeep’s roar rumbles to a stop, the rustic sounds of the jungle take over. Straining our ears, we hear the distant sounds of squawking birds and chattering monkeys and wait, with bated breath, for the king of the Indian jungles to appear. There are two main ways to track ...

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Rajasthani miniature paintings: Amalgamation of history, culture and beauty

Rajasthani miniature paintings: Amalgamation of history, culture and beauty

August 16, 2021

The king of kings riding along the dense jungle path, with his raised sword gleaming in the moonlight and bow and arrows hung from his sinewy shoulders as the horse on which his proud girth is positioned gallops towards the unknown. The dark sky glittered with stars as if alive, ...

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Daboo Printing: A perennial block printing technique

Daboo Printing: A perennial block printing technique

March 27, 2021

Native to a small village tucked away from urban civilisation in the north-western state of Rajasthan, Daboo printing is a mud-resist hand block fabric printing technique sustaining the local Chipa Muslim community. It is one of the oldest block printing techniques in India, famo...

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Voluntourism in India: Travel to transform lives

Voluntourism in India: Travel to transform lives

February 10, 2021

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”  Naveen Godiyal quotes Mary Anne Radmacher, a famed writer and an artist based in the United States while talking about his experience of volunteering across different places in India as a backpac...

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India’s 2 million homeless: Unseen victims of Covid-19

India’s 2 million homeless: Unseen victims of Covid-19

September 22, 2020

According to the Housing and Land Rights Network of India, an NGO that fights for the right to housing among others, the number of homeless people in India is much more than the official estimates of 1 million. It says that about one percent of residents of all Indian cities are ...

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Tourists, local shoppers desert Jaipur

Tourists, local shoppers desert Jaipur

June 25, 2020

A popular destination for tourists, Indian and foreign alike, Jaipur’s numerous markets have been catering to both the segments of buyers. But even almost a month after markets reopened, most shops remain empty as buyers stay away.

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Top five palace hotels in India

Top five palace hotels in India

March 16, 2020

For most people, luxury means royalty and vice versa and luxury tourism has come to gain equivalence with kings and palaces. Though the royalty has long been abolished in India, tourists can still get a kingly feel by opting to stay in one of the several palaces that have been co...

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TTF Kolkata observes another full house edition

TTF Kolkata observes another full house edition

July 18, 2019

Travel and Tourism Fair (TTF), India’s oldest and one of the largest travel trade show network celebrated its 30th edition of TTF Kolkata this year from July 12-14 with 450+ exhibitors and a record turnout of 10,000 visitors.

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