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CULTURE

Jaipur’s Famous Blue Pottery Has a Story That Crosses Borders 

Pick up a blue pottery bowl in a Jaipur shop, and you are holding an object with no clay in it. That surprises most...

Aoleang: How the Konyak Naga Community Welcomes Spring Through Dance, Food and Rituals

The grandest festival of the Konyak Nagas ends with sweeping the floor. After days of drums, feasting, and dancing, people in Mon district, Nagaland,...

Madai: The Chhattisgarh Festival Where Tribal Communities Carry Their Gods From Village to Village

What happens when a god is invited to a fair and accepts? In Chhattisgarh's forests, you can see the...

Bhagoria Haat: The Tribal Festival of Madhya Pradesh That Has a Story Beyond Holi

A pinch of coloured powder on a stranger's cheek, and the whole village is said to know the answer....

Why Nagaland’s Sekrenyi Is More Than a Festival: The Angami Tradition of Purification

Before the sun clears the hills around Kohima on 25 February, a group of Angami men stand guard near...

From Mahua to Bamboo Shoots: Ingredients That Tell the Story of India’s Tribal Food Culture

Somewhere in a forest in Jharkhand tonight, a family is cooking a dish their great-grandmother knew by heart. The...

Arunachal’s Solung Tradition: The Festival Where Villages Become Living Museums

Every September, in the misty valleys of Arunachal Pradesh, a village stops being just a village. Houses fill with...

Himachal’s Sair Festival: Where a Lemon Predicts Your Fortune

Just as summer slowly gives way to autumn, a lemon is carried door to door in the hills of...