Varanasi is a strange city; one foot in the past, one in the present. The word ‘future’ feels out of place here, things just have been and continue to be
Cremation and burial scarcely ever involve a human choice. By contrast, a person wishing to donate his or her body to a medical college has to make that choice in their lifetime.
Each of Himachal Pradesh’s 12 districts has its own tradition of folk songs about the rains, defined by the topography.
Dalit shahir B Kashinand was optimistic, determined and a dreamer of the Prabuddha Bharath (Enlightened Bharath)
“Clashes” are often reported between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli military in the West Bank. What may not be immediately clear is the nature of many of these clashes.
These photographs present the study in contrasts that is the fate of Israelis and Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
First published in 1972, George Orwell's proposed preface to Animal Farm makes a compelling — and timeless — argument for upholding the freedom of the press
Kulwant Roy's photographs offer an intimate portrait of the Indian freedom struggle and feature national heroes like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel among others.
DMK chief M Karunanidhi, one of the foremost Dravidian politicians in modern times, died in Chennai on Tuesday, 7 August 2018, aged 94
Palestinian lives — those of children and adults alike — are marked in every aspect by the Israeli occupation. Here are a few instances of its effect on their daily lives
Millions of tourists come to see the famous Berlin Wall graffiti; many of them playfully interact with the art on the wall — a stark contrast to what was once a terrifying symbol of the East versus West Germany divide
Unmindful work on the Char Dham Highway Development Project, unregulated tourism and related construction boom threaten a severely stressed geography in Uttarakhand
Israel has erected vast, sophisticated and expensive architecture in the West Bank to control, micro-manage and frustrate Palestinian lives
The question of what a river means to its people, is also equally about asking the question of how people frame themselves as part of rivers and their extended physical environments
Prahlad Shinde sang many of the Ambedkarite movement’s songs. But he also sang ‘devotional’ and ‘folk’ songs which brought him widespread popularity.
The ghatam's revival is the story of an extraordinary global campaign to rescue a musical instrument
Bustling cities, crawling peak hour traffic, street-side vendors and measured chaos evoke a distinct sense of familiarity for an Indian traveller in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank of Palestine
Palestine's West Bank — merely 50 percent larger than Goa or three-and-half times the size of Greater London — is packed with immense historical and geographical diversity
Food, dance, theatre, art — Palestine has much to offer culture aficionados. Here's a look, in pictures.
There are several large universities in the West Bank, Palestine, with over 10,000 students and the largest among them — An-Najah university — has over 20,000!
Targeted online, often through vicious commentary on their appearance, five Sri Lankans talk about how they fought back | #Longreads
Unheard of ailments, dying livestock, failed crops — villagers who live close to the Tummalapalle uranium mine in Andhra Pradesh believe the project is the cause of their myriad troubles
“Song is not a means of livelihood for me [sic]. It is a weapon to bring awareness in society,” Prakash Patankar said
The bahurupis are folk cosplayers of Bengal who portray several hundred characters, most of them mythological, but some with social relevance
As Venkatapathy Raju turns 49, Firstpost winds back the clock with 'Muscles' who seems to be finally living up to his pseudo name
The lyrics of a song that Nagorao Patankar performed in 1935 before BR Ambedkar went: "Dalito Ki Tawarikh/ Mulk Hindostan Se Pucho (The history of Dalits/ Ask the country called Hindostan)"
Cleveland is a city with three patron saints: Superman, born from the imagination of two college kids, was invented here while the Nazi-defying Olympic gold medallist Jesse Owens called this city a home for a large part of his life. The city's third patron saint is basketball star LeBron James, the man who delivered the city its first sporting success after a 52-year drought in 2016.
Anna Bhau Sathe voiced the pain of an entire generation of untouchable workers, who migrated from the villages to cities in search of a life of dignity
Wamandada Kardak's work as a Dalit shahir was a breakthrough in terms of defining ‘culture’ in a Hindu Brahminical society
Though his songs were popular and even sung by established singers, Uttam Mule was never given due credit