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Dedicated to Sex Workers, Kolkata Durga Puja Club’s Stunning Street Graffiti
"There can’t be disparity when we celebrate womanhood in the form of goddess Durga,"
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Chennai’s complicated relationship with its dying rivers, as chronicled by artists
“This kind of art can make people come to the river, not take it to be just a dirty river but something that you would want to come and see. "
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Carnatic music and a folk theatre form come together to push the stubborn lines of caste and gender
Artistic traditions are being fostered without the incumbent caste and gender biases.
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A River Runs through It
The river, a matrix of abundance, its alluvial deposits and its water, rendered the land fertile and made agriculture possible.
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Auroville’s innovators
The mystery of Auroville - celebrating a few initiatives and individuals
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A new tribe of storytellers is using every trick in the book to keep you rapt
How to give children of the digital generation a sense of earth - may be through stories ?
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Nila – A river and its relationships
A revival of traditional arts and crafts along the River Bharathapuzha in Kerala
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The moment’s gone
Has your cell phone kidnapped the gawker in you?
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An alternative school in rural Kerala is teaching tribal children life lessons
Gothrathalam school aims at preventing Dalit and Adivasi students from being isolated