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...

Barkagaon may be in the news for sending 29-year-old Amba Prasad, to the Assembly as Jharkhand’s youngest MLA, or for land agitations of villagers against the National Thermal Power Plant (NTPC) whi...

From new-fangled Happy Makar WhatsApp texts to age-old rice dumplings (peethas) and Tusu fairs, people in and around the steel city plunged themselves in Makar Sankranti festivities on Wednesday.This ...

Abdur Rahaman from Birbhum’s Dubrajpur was wandering through Joydeb village early on Wednesday carrying three large bunches of bananas on his shoulders.Abdur, 35, unlike lakhs of other pilgrims, had...

It’s Makar Sankranti time, which for Jamshedpur foodies means a forced break from eating out. Most chefs and helpers at eatery kitchens and some waiters are away on Tusu Parab (or Makar Sankranti) l...

Sir — Flying kites is an essential part of Makar Sankranti celebrations in various parts of India. But each year on this day, several creatures, especially birds, get injured by kite strings laced w...

NaMo or RaGa, who’s ruling the airwaves, literally? Traditional kite fighting is set to get a full-throttle political spin this Makar Sankranti in poll-bound 2019. Kites with the faces of Prime Mini...

While pro and anti CAA camps continue to hold their respective grounds, the ideological battle between the two groups was fought in the sky literally with kites on Tuesday in Gujarat on the occasion o...

A social media storm over a “beef fry” tweet by Kerala Tourism on Wednesday has prompted the CPM-led government to assert that food is not linked to religion in the state.Slamming the state govern...

True to its folk origins, Makar Sankranti is known and celebrated as Tusu Parab across vast areas of Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha. Goddess Tusu is worshipped with joyful festivities, food, fairs and s...