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March 23, 2016
Arindam Roy
Fairs & Festivals, Oral Traditions

Holi: Folklores, Festivity and Fertility

Holi, the spring festival, has several folklores associated with it. It’s celebrated for 40 days in Kullu, when devotees play Holi with Ram. The tradition continues for five centuries now....

March 21, 2016
Smita Agarwal
Poem

Mofussil Mummies

Smita shows us a slice of life in a laid back mofussil on the World Poetry Day. At seventy five and eighty, Under garden umbrellas They sit on the...

March 21, 2016
Ampat Varghese Koshy
Poem

Punch/ I Kissed a Girl, I Liked it!

On World Poetry Day, we present are two love poems of Ampat. The first is tongue-in-cheek, and the second, rich in symbolism. Punch Love is balding Growing a paunch Writes...

March 21, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Economy, Politics

Modi should first make India makeable, says SBP President

To ‘Make in India’, India must first be made makeable. Bad governance, chronic inefficiency and corruption, unjustified regulatory barriers, delays in land purchase, and substandard infrastructure are the malice that needs...

March 20, 2016
Sangita Bhat
Subaltern & Dalits

The Grim Sufferings of Musahars and Dalits

Sangita is in India under the youth exchange programme. She visited villages of Dalit and Musahar to report on the squalor, poverty and sufferings of the people living in the margins...

March 20, 2016
Sisir K Chatterjee
Architecture & Monuments, Cover Story, Heritage, Oral Traditions

…And God Played Hide and Seek in Guptipara

Sisir brings alive the magic and mystery of Guptipara. Here God played hide and seek with his devotee, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He unfolds the story of a village situated in...

March 16, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Books

Architecture of Flesh: Gutsy, Intense and Deeply Sensitive

Ravi Shankar a unique voice that is bold and honest, sensitive and rational. He writes spontaneously, from his gut, with guts. He is not ashamed to speak of man’s most...

March 16, 2016
Susmita Bhattacharya
Relationship & Lifestyle

Coping with Separation and Change

Susmita shares with us the pain of separation. How it tears the heart of a mother to send both her sons to boarding schools! In a candid account, she tells...

March 16, 2016
Smita Agarwal
Poem

Beggary in Bhatiyali

Smita, a trained singer, blends music with poetic sensibility. She celebrates mysticism. ta nana tantanatan tantanatan tantanatan ta nana tan tanatan ta nana tantanatan tantanatan tantanatan ta nana tan...

March 16, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Economy

Full compensation for farmers and crops destroyed in hailstorm demanded

Farmers have to bear the brunt of natural calamities. The recent hailstorm destroyed their crops. AIKMS demanded full and adequate payment of compensation for the farmers. The agrarian sector has been...

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