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CULTURE

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 main ingredient fell from a...

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 the smell of fermenting rice,...

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...

Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra: The Himalayan Kumbh Where Faith Leads

In Uttarakhand, the land of the gods, there is a pilgrimage that is completed not merely by walking, but...

Kasu Mala- The Golden Coin Necklace Every South Indian Bride Still Craves

A golden coin necklace that South Indian brides still crave has been draped around wedding-day necks for well over...

Can Genes Explain How India Votes? A New Book Examines the Question

Can genes explain how India votes? That question stood at the centre of an unusual evening in Delhi, where...

The Woollen Stories of Kullu Valley Written Through Traditional Weaving

A woollen code only Kullu weavers can read runs through every shawl that leaves the looms of this Himachal...

Jainsem and Dakmanda: Meghalaya’s Woven Stories of Identity, Memory and Heritage

In the hills of Meghalaya, a piece of cloth remembers everything a family has ever been. Long before photographs...