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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Questions arise when police arrest Mohammed Zubair, but not Nupur Sharma, says retired SC judge
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How the Modi government has weaponised the ED to go after India’s Opposition
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‘Media, politicians totally clueless’: Sudhir Chaudhary on Zee News before leaving the channel
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‘You are immortalised in our hearts’: A cellmate’s letter to Stan Swamy on his death anniversary
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Muslim eatery owner arrested in UP for packing meat dishes in newspaper with images of Hindu deities
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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
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‘Market price is very high’: Inflation in Pakistan pushes up prices for sacrificial cattle this Eid
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Caught on camera: Black balloons released near PM Modi’s helicopter in Andhra Pradesh
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Watch: Rapper Drake joins Backstreet Boys to perform ‘I Want It That Way’ at Toronto concert
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Watch: Eco-activists glue themselves to frame of painting at National Gallery in London
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Watch: Man laid off from job builds outdoor resort for birds to eat, play, and drink water