People take different routes to beat the summer. But Lord Jagannath of Puri takes a boat ride followed by a massage with sandalwood paste to beat the heat.    The 21-day-long Chandan Yatra ...

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“There's practically no platform of this sort that acts as a consolidated list of India's most respected arts and culture festivals, and serves as a resource for those who build and crea...

Last evening, I sent out 21 Eidi bags (jute bags from Lata Bajoria) to kids across communities. I filled each bag with Alpenliebe candies. Stray Rs 2 coins. And some currency. I wrote a card secured b...

And yet. Even this institution died out a few years ago, partly because Eid night coincided with the monsoons and one couldn’t quite do this inside the community hall of a gated complex. Our col...

The stalls selling bangles in New Market were equally crowded. Asif Ali and wife Shagufta Parveen had come to New Market with their four-year-old son Aftab. “I used to go shopping with my fathe...

A housing society in New Town came forward to help underprivileged families with food provisions in the month of Ramazan. On Sunday, iftaar kits were given out to domestic help employed in the comple...

The reflex response of calling mom to ask what dua should be recited at what point (even when I was in my fifties) has been replaced by scribbles on paper scraps.  The fried bhajiyaas during the...

Christina Milian put on a cheeky display looking smoking hot in a two-piece blue bikini with super comfy white sneakers, because who wears heels to a music festival!? She opted for an interesting cove...

Lost spirit Sir — While Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including Dilip Ghosh, led Ram Navami rallies at various parts of West Bengal, the ruling Trinamul Congress conducted rival celebrat...