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Bag making is a significant aspect of Assam’s handloom heritage among its tribes such as the Bodo, Karbi, Tiwa and Rabha. These bags are an integral part of their lives and are intertwined with their socio-cultural, religious, economic, and day-to-day life. Many tribal communities in Assam are actively adopting and using traditional homemade bags. These … Read more
‘The eyes see what the brain knows.’ This old adage, famous in the echelons of medicine, highlights why syncope is important in clinical medicine, for it is often missed while evaluating a patient. Syncope is a transient loss of consciousness due to cerebral hypoperfusion. In simple terms, it is a brief cut-off from reality, which … Read more
Aspirations, from the seemingly mundane to more substantial plans, reveal what may be the architecture of hope in mental health recovery. | Photo Credit: SREEJITH R. KUMAR In a small house in western India, shared by a group of people once homeless and living with mental illnesses, a woman dreams of cooking ragi mudde, a … Read more
A book-browser has neither the patience nor the attention-span to read a book; he simply likes the company of the book and the feel of the book resting on his palm. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Yes, I am a “book-browser”. I browse through books at the bookstore, but I never buy a single book! … Read more
The experience of the moment is the expression of the moment. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Haiku is the celebration of a moment, at once transient and transcendent. What started as a rigid Japanese verse form of three lines, haiku has become a philosophy, a way of life, a detail that strikes you. A dewdrop … Read more
A group of Indian women wearing traditional dress | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Even after over 75 years of Independence, the social fabric of India continues to be set against women. India might have surpassed countries like the U.K. to become the fifth largest economy in the world but this economic growth has not been … Read more
Priya Ranganathan’s first encounter with a Myristica swamp was back in 2019 when she was working as a research assistant at the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) on a hydro-ecology project. As part of a field trip with other researchers, she was exploring the Aghanashini, one of the rivers … Read more
Almost every day for the past few years, the muddy winding roads to a farmhouse in Sajanpura village, enclosed within 12-feet-high brick walls, would resound with sounds of a DJ and the band of the baaraat (the groom’s side coming in procession to take the bride). This farmhouse is where the NGO, Gayatri Sarv Samaj … Read more
(L-R) Fondation Louis Vuitton, Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum, and the Guggenheim Did you know that the city of Basel, Switzerland with a population of around 1,75,000 people has 37 museums? A similar city division in India, such as Bandra East, Mumbai has that many people. Upmarket Bandra however has no museums and the city, barely … Read more
