Cultural Traditions
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What is the Ministry of Culture doing?: Former Kalakshetra director Leela Samson slams campus misuse
The management and senior staff are turning a blind eye to commercial activities on the Chennai-based arts and cultural academy.
Scroll Staff
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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
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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.
Shahnawaz Alam
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‘Viduthalai Part 1’ review: A blistering portrayal of power run amok
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The dark side of wind energy along Gujarat’s coast
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Is ‘glass skin’ achievable? A dermatologist answers this and other skincare questions in a new book
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Kalakshetra abuse controversy should force a rethink of power hierarchies in ‘classical’ dance world
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‘Gaslight’ review: Exactly who is being gaslit here?
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How Karbala has influenced writers and poets in South Asia for centuries
There is history and then there is the memory of history.
Suleman Akhtar
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‘Powerlooms may anger the goddess’: The story of a unique weaver’s village in Kerala
Each home in Kuthampully is part showroom, part manufacturing unit and part office.
Chitra Ajith
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Harvard scholar says the idea of India dates to a much earlier time than the British or the Mughals
It wasn’t just a cluster of regional identities, and it wasn't ethnic or racial, says Diana L Eck, as she talks about her latest book, 'India: A Sacred Geography'.
Mridula Chari
Video
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Watch: Policemen help elderly man collect spilled grains after the sack fell off his motorcycle
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Watch: Traffic constable’s dog rides on motorbike in watermelon-shell helmet to raise awareness
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Watch: Toddler shoots basketball through hoop behind his back, stuns father and brother
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Watch: Mumbai’s Gateway of India is the backdrop for Christian Dior fashion show
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Watch: Rescuers pull out devotees who fell into Indore temple stepwell after the roof collapsed