Vignette of a true India

Kodaikanal feasts those who love to be close to Mother Nature, than any other hill stations in South India. Maya Krishnan says that its minimal population and lacks of modernization that keeps the natural forests virgin to offer the visitors a haven ...

A walk with Maya Krishnan unveils you the present state of Kerala which is in a crazy run to grab the super powers of the so-called development. She ushers you to the dark harems of the Malayali mindset where they buried their once adored values ...

Thrissur Pooram goes on its majestic ride with all the pomp and splendor to be titled as ‘festival of festivals’, amazing generations after generations. While the innovations and renovations for its updating are on progress, Shruthi Parasuram...

Ooty, the hill station in the Nilgiris  serves a get away from the steamy summers for most of the sight seers inside and outside India. Maya Krishnan illustrates the vignette of the changed face of Ooty after a family tour which she thinks a ...

Even though renowned as the land of reformers such as Chanakya , Buddha and like, Bihar is undoubtedly the most under developed State in India. Be it by the rampant political anarchy or by the curse of incessant floods, Bihar raises eye brows at those who seek a ...

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 ...

Maya Krishnan narrates the story of a village, which has been in a fight for the right to live for the last 60 years. It becomes the stinking issue in the political, social and cultural arena of a State known to be as ‘God’s Own Country’ ...

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. ...

In spite of the divinity and dignity rendered upon, elephants are being treated as condemned prisoners in India.  At the onset of the festival season in Kerala, Gayatri Sundaram , talks about the back stage events and the illegal corridors through which ...