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

· Feb 23, 2018 · 03:34 pm

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.

Shahnawaz Alam

· Jan 23, 2018 · 11:30 pm

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

· Oct 01, 2017 · 07:30 pm

‘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

· Jan 29, 2017 · 03:30 pm

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

· Jan 20, 2016 · 01:30 pm

Why rap should share a stage with poetry and jazz

Californian rap and jazz poetry may sound like an odd mix – but both are rooted in historic inequalities

Josephine Metcalf and Will Turner, The Conversation

· Nov 28, 2015 · 06:30 am