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MP Woman Fights Gender Stereotypes To Command India’s First All-Women Goods...
“Our home was close to a railway track. I remember how, as a kid, I would run to the terrace every time a train zoomed by. Watching it go would make me so excited. That feeling has remained unchanged,...
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If Gucci Can, Why Don’t We Indians Also Sell America Plain Kurtas For Rs 2.5...
I remember watching Gwen Stefani in her ’90s music video No Doubt — Don’t Speak, where she had donned a blue dress with white polka dots and another tiny red dot on her forehead. It seemed odd to me to...
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Why A Coastal Scottish Town Remembers This Unknown Indian Even 100 Years Later
In 2019, the University of Dundee, one of the UK’s top 30 educational institutions, announced the Jainti Dass Memorial Scholarship for Excellence for Indian students looking to study there. The winner...
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Meet 10 Inspiring Indians Who Became Protectors & Helped Thousands Survive...
This article has been published in partnership with Dettol India. There’s no doubt that India struggled during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. As thousands were in desperate need of basic...
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World’s Largest Handmade Drawings Discovered In Thar; Surpass Peru’s Nazca...
In the 1930s, pilots flying commercial planes over the Peruvian coastal plain noticed and brought attention to a strange pattern of lines etched into the ground. These were depictions of various...
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The Fate of a Rare Dying Art Rests on The Lips of This 20-YO Kerala Girl
I n 2008, after performing a rare art form of puppetry called ‘Nokkuvidya Pavakkali’ in Paris, artist and Padma Shri awardee Moozhikkal Pankajakshi found herself at a crossroads. She was the last...
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In the 1970s, India’s First Rock Band Was Born In The Backyard of A Kolkata Home
From the ’50s till the ’70s, Kolkata (then Calcutta) witnessed a surge of refugees after the Partition of India. These were decades of chaos but also of a social and cultural awakening, where different...
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32000 Km And 500 towns: Mumbai Photographer’s Journey to Save Single-Screen...
For the last 17 years, Hemant Chaturvedi always began the new year with a travel ritual. A Mumbai-based photographer and cinematographer, he travels all the way to Prayagraj (earlier known as...
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India’s First Intimacy Coordinator From Mumbai Is Making ‘On-screen...
In 2018, India’s social climate experienced a transformation like no other. A clarion call for sexual violence survivors, the #MeToo movement allowed thousands of people to share their accounts of...
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After Losing Leg In Accident, UP Man Helps Small Towns Get Access To Big...
In 2008, when Ayush Mishra was in his first year of college, he was riding pillion on a bike with his friend to their university in Jaipur. On the highway, a drunk truck driver rammed into the bike....
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2000-Year-Old Harappan Vanity Case Has These 5 Items You Use Even Today
One’s first impression of the sculptures yielded in excavations from various Harappan sites across India and Pakistan, is of how prim and proper the Harappans were. Take, for example, the Harappan...
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The Spiciest Map of India: 10 GI-Tagged Spices You Need to Try Now!
There is a unique language in India spoken by all. Although not counted among the 22 official languages of India or the 19,500 dialects, this is a language that transcends communal differences,...
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IPS Officer Helps Wives Abandoned By Absconding NRIs, Impounds 500 Passports
In Room 305 in Chandigarh’s Regional Passport Office, Reena and Amrit sit together to sift through piles of documents. The room is abuzz with activity, as the women scan through various applications,...
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Amid the Pandemic, Twitter Generates Several Lakhs in Revenue For Pattachitra...
Bipin Das, 43, has spent the last 26 years burning the midnight oil to keep a dying art alive. A skilled senior Pattachitra artist based out of a small village near Raghurajpur, Odisha, he dedicates...
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AIIMS Bhubaneswar Professor Proves Pakhala/Panta Bhat Can Boost Immunity
You may call it by many names—panta bhaat, geel bhaat, pazhaya sadham or pakhala bhaat—this local soul food has dominated home kitchens pan India. Made with love for centuries, the fermented rice gruel...
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Pakora Map of India: The Delicious Story of India’s Deep-Fried Wonders
As the sky growls angrily announcing the impending showers, my mother rushes to the kitchen to make arrangements for the grand arrival. In a matter of minutes, a thick batter full of wondrous flavours...
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One of India’s Largest FMCG Brands Is Doing Something Special with Toothpaste...
This article has been sponsored by Dabur The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, with a reach from essential to luxury products, is today the fourth largest industry in the Indian economy....
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Better Parenting Comes From Better Sex-Ed: Coimbatore Sexpert Shares
Like all ’90s kids in India, I too grew up watching the popular dance show called ‘Boogie Woogie’ and aspired to be on that stage. I would love to dance and could do it for several hours at a stretch....
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How Books & A Royal Mistress Shaped An Indian Slave’s Role In The French...
This story has all the makings of a war drama — a king, a mistress, a slave, a revolution, loyalty, and ultimately, betrayal. But, at its centre is a young Indian boy, taken from his birthplace when he...
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Delhi Startup Makes it Easy for People to Invest in Digital Gold & Silver
This article has been sponsored by OroPocket Peers in school, both Tarusha Mittal and Mohit Madan had always talked about starting a venture together that could potentially impact the masses in a...
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