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Priya Varrier’s viral song ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ gets Kerala’s Muslim folk poetry wider attention

The song featuring a winking Priya Varrier is a Mapila Pattu, a genre of poetry traditionally associated with the Muslims of North Kerala.

TA Ameerudheen
· Feb 20, 2018 · 11:30 am

Santhal tribes in Jharkhand are reviving an old, low-cost tradition to get safe drinking water

Keeping water pots in a garsadi, a raised platform, have helped prevent contamination.

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· Jan 23, 2018 · 11:30 pm
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· Oct 01, 2017 · 07:30 pm
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Nepal’s sacred tradition of burning sang incense could wither away

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