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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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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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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Watch: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist