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Deepak Kumar

Ladakh Just Turned 230 Kilometres of Mountain Road Into an Art Gallery

Travellers usually come to Ladakh for a familiar set of images. Turquoise lakes beneath enormous skies, monasteries perched on...

Why Urdu Poets Never Stopped Singing To Krishna

Urdu poets never stopped singing to Krishna, and the reason has nothing to do with politics or fashion. It...

Five-Hundred-Year-Old Tant Saree Still Weaves Tradition Into Everyday Life

A saree that has outlived empires, floods, and a border drawn in 1947 should not still be hanging in...

Kolkata Doctor Who Created India’s First IVF Baby Was Honoured Late

This is the story of the Kolkata Doctor Who Created India’s First IVF Baby and India forgot, then finally...

Raksha Bandhan: A Timeless Promise of Love and Protection

As Raksha Bandhan arrives, millions of wrists across India carry a silken thread with a large promise. Sisters tie...

Maheshwari Sarees: The Royal Weave of Maheshwar

There is a saree with a secret border, and the government of India had to protect it by law....

Onam: The Festival That Belongs to All Religions

Every year, a festival arrives in Kerala that no single religion can claim as its own. Onam is often...

‘Kaho Kalidas!’ Brings Mahakavi Kalidas and His Timeless Works to Youth

The secret love story hidden inside Kalidas's poetry has finally found a voice, in the form of a novel...

Bhuri Bai: The Bhil Artist Who Carried a Village into the World

Bhuri Bai once carried bricks at Bharat Bhawan- the Bhopal art centre- for daily wages, unaware that her hands...

The Fascinating World of India’s Lesser-Known Transgender Jogappa Community

The hidden priestesses of Karnataka that nobody discusses in polite conversation, though their music has echoed through temple courtyards...

Ellora Caves: Carved out of a Mountain 

The mountain was carved, cut away piece by piece until a temple stood where solid rock had existed once....

After Three Decades And Two PhDs, He Finally Became A Doctor 

At fifty-one, A. Suresh Kumar's dream of becoming a doctor has finally come true, more than three decades after...