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The iron grill over the entrances of Britannia & Co. with the initials of the cafe ‘B.C’ incorporated in the design. Britannia & Co. is located at Ballard Estate business district, in a grand building designed by the Scottish architect George Wittet (who also famously designed the Gateway of India and the Prince of Wales Museum).

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Maska Bun and Migration: Irani Cafes of Bombay

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Suvrata Chowdhary is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata (Courtesy: Ashish Kumar Yadav)

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Maska Bun and Migration: Irani Cafes of Bombay

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Pashmina Wool, Freezing Winters and Nomadic Life: The Changpas of Rupshu

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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Religious Life in Modern Bengal

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Laharu and mid-Eighteenth Century Chamba Painting

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Aakriti Chandervanshi explores the vanishing zeitgeist of Bombay's distinctive Irani Cafes. This iconic cafes, run by generations of Parsis and Iranis, have contributed significantly to Bombay's food culture, ethnic histories and Art Deco architecture.

Aakriti Chandervanshi

Maska Bun and Migration: Irani Cafes of Bombay

The Changpas live in a high-altitude cold desert in Ladakh. They follow a nomadic lifestyle, herding vast flocks of sheep, yak and goat. They harvest fine wool from their livestock, which is used in making Pashmina shawls. Their nomadic lifestyle is under threat from climate change and increasing urbanisation of Ladakh due to tourism. (Photo Courtesy: Lopamudra Talukdar)

Lopamudra Talukdar

Pashmina Wool, Freezing Winters and Nomadic Life: The Changpas of Rupshu

The Karens of the Andaman Islands are an ethnic group who migrated from Burma in the late 1920's. Their small community live a life based on agriculture, hunting, fishing and tourism. (Courtesy: Snehal Kanodia)

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Life at Webi Village : Karens of the Andaman Islands

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The Invisible Gender: Menzimyeors of Srinagar

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