~ Debashri Mandal One of India’s greatest festivals, Diwali, or Deepawali, lighten up every corner of the country with flowers, sweets, rituals, colorful rangolis, lots of crackers, and, of course, diyas filled with love, warmth, and happiness. However, the festival of lights doesn’t stop here and again re-emerges exactly after fifteen days of Diwali on […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats The term ‘Ramlila’ literally translates to “Rama’s play”. It is a performance of the epic of the Ramayana in a series of scenes that does not just consist of acting but also includes song, narration, recitation, and dialogue. It is performed all around northern India during the festival of Dussehra, held each year […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Navratri is a major festival filled with symbolism about destroying evil and selfish nature, and about having deep respect for all aspects of life, including the things and objects that contribute to our well-being. The nine days of Navratri are divided on the basis of the three basic qualities of tamas, rajas, and sattva. The first […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Durga Puja is a festival that includes the worship of the mother goddess, and it is one of the most important and major festivals of India. It is not just a religious festival, but it also constitutes the emotions of reunion and renewal of the spiritual self while celebrating the traditions and norms […]Read More
~Vani Mishra There was a time when the boundaries of the known world were sketched not in sharp lines but in speculation, fantasy, and sometimes in advisories: “Here be dragons.” Maps were more than travel guides for centuries. They were reflections of human desire, ambition, and fear. In the Age of Exploration, approximately between the […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats Habib Tanvir, born on September 1, 1923, was 86 years old when he died in 2009. His connection and working with the stage stayed alive until his death and hence spanned nearly three-quarters of his life. In the time he worked for the theatre as a playwright and director, he not only evolved […]Read More
-Bhoomee Vats T.K. Radha, or Thayyoor K. Radha, was born in Kerala in British India, an era when educating girls beyond high school was not so common. The fourth child of her parents, she was the smartest among all her sisters while pursuing higher education at the Presidency College in Madras, which is now known as Chennai, […]Read More
– Vani Mishra History tends to best illuminate emperors, generals, and treaties while relegating the hundreds of thousands of plain men who carried the burden of empires to relative darkness. Among the twentieth century’s big silences is the tale of over a million Indian soldiers who traversed seas and deserts to die fighting another man’s […]Read More
-Vani Mishra When Partition occurred in 1947, the human cost was tremendous. Millions were displaced, families separated, and whole cities rewired overnight by borders slicing through soil and memory both. Amidst this vast disruption, another lesser-known story was unfolding. It was the tale of books—libraries torn out of context, manuscripts destroyed, and whole sets of […]Read More
-Vani Mishra There are times in history when the plainest objects bear within them the burden of empires. Tea, that unassuming brew of leaves and water, was one such force. For Britain, it was not just a drink; it was a cultural fixation, a source of vast wealth, and a rationalization for empire itself. For […]Read More