A craft bazaar, food stalls and music — they were the focus of a fair on Activity Based Curriculum (ABC) organised by St Augustine’s Day School, Shyamnagar, on March 15 and 16. Students an...

A citizens’ group in Jharkhand, frustrated with the “callousness” of the forest department, has taken steps to prevent forest fire in Parasnath wildlife sanctuary. Parasnath wildlif...

Footnote It seems that the Karnataka food and civil supplies minister, Umesh Katti, considers the words of Narendra Modi as final. Seen without a mask at a public event, Katti attributed his decision...

“I have to make sure that the thadda and the kamani are placed correctly,” says Taiyab. “Each artisan makes 600 kites in a single day,” says Javed. No one can say how many yea...

Bengali literature has been quite key in establishing the dominion of gur. ‘Kintu shobar chaite bhalo — pauruti aar jhola gur,’ Sukumar Ray wrote in his celebrated book of nonsense v...

The prime minister also wished people on Makar Sankranti and Uttarayan. ...

With a surge in COVID cases in Uttarakhand, a ban has been imposed on devotees taking a dip in the Ganga in Haridwar and Rishikesh on the occasion of Makar Sankranti on January 14. There will be a ba...

Safe flight Sir — With the arrival of the new year, one looks forward to festivals like Makar Sankranti, Lohri, Uttarayan and so on that are celebrated to mark the end of the winter ...

It is dusk. A bus trudges its way through the dusty road to stop at the path leading to my ancestral village. There was a certain quiet as the family stood there eagerly and silently praying and waiti...