In the early years of my carreer, when I began working with the farmers of Vidarbha, I would always try to avoid a vital aspect of their hospitality-...

On 3 June 2014, more than 700 policemen marched into Mandur village near Bengaluru – to forcefully dump the city’s garbage in the protesting village....

Three years ago when I bought these bullocks, they were worth Rs 58,000. Now they are worth at least Rs 1,00,000,’ exclaims Anil Kale with pride,...

It is the last week of March, busiest time of the year for the farmers of Ratnagiri, producers of the world-famous Alphonso mango. But the silence...

The moisture in the soil dries up, and new vegetables stop growing. Wadis, or large kitchen gardens, where some of the traditional vegetables are...

What’s more, once prepared, dry chutneys can be stored at room temperature for a month or more to be dished out as and when needed. Convenient,...

Every year in Maharashtra, an estimated 150 million Ganesh idols are immersed in lakes, rivers and the sea during the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi...

It’s early days and evidence is scarce. But the initial buzz around Surface – Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iPad – is not the stuff tech legends are...

On 1 October this year, the garden city of India was chock-a-block with hoardings and newspaper advertisements announcing the Bengaluru civic body’s...

The white-painted section of the roof of Chitra Vishwanath’s residence-cum-office in Bengaluru is pleasantly warm. ‘Come, stand here,’ she calls from...

At the sight of their sister returning from work, Sharad and Bharati drop their toys, gurgle with joy and clamour impatiently to be picked up and...

Every monsoon, the Gond and Korku tribes of Madhya Pradesh’s Betul and Harda districts celebrate Hari Jiroti. It is a month-long festival of greenery,...