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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.

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· Feb 23, 2018 · 03:34 pm

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

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· Feb 20, 2018 · 11:30 am

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

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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 · 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.

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

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