Vignette of a true India

Pottan Theyyam makes every one stand at their toe. Its prologue, Thottam paattu shoots questions towards the bosom of a State divided into irrational fragments of a void caste system. Rubina Shagin talks with a veteran Theyyam artist narrating the interesting incidents of ‘becoming’ and the ...

Is there any festival which has born out of jealousy? Indeed, it is here right in India. It is nothing but Holi, which is being celebrated today wherever an Indian community lives…Rajshri Iyer talks about the symbolic and transgressing aspects of the ...

Kerala is a State, where the celebration statement is equated with caparisoned elephants, conveniently brushing aside their basic rights to live.  At the same time, a ritualistic temple festival is being celebrated in Kerala annually without the participation of elephants and adoring the lower caste people as ...

Most of the festivals in India are either directly or indirectly related to the cultural past of the country. As the generation changes, it undergoes various evolutionary processes which sometimes may subject to immense changes from the original version and make it trail off the heritage track. ...

Belief and Disbelief “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending” saith the Lord. He also consoled his disciples “Let thy belief save thee”. Conflicts within were there, even before the ages have ...

Unlike other religions Hinduism has no frameworks. Its ethics is totally different from the modern biological and utilitarian ethics, which target only certain zones of the community. Hindu ethics is ardently subjective and personal. It is derived out of spiritual concepts. It constitutes the largest democratic country, Bharat( You ...

Indians have a lot of legendry backgrounds for anything auspicious, still they have.. Vinod. P. takes you to the southern tip of Indian peninsula, to show you the images of an era through a reflecting wonder.

"India is like a donkey carrying a sack of gold on its back. The donkey does not know what it is carrying but is content to go along with the load on its back" An old saying still worthy to quote. Indians keep aloof as if they do not know anything ...