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Women collect flowers and handcraft cotton wicks for small lamps in the afternoon.

Swarnima Kriti

Devari: The Other Diwali in Chhattisgarh

Practices and Rituals

Reminiscing Sona Bai Rajwar: Mushtak Khan with Daroga Ram RajwarVideo

The Impact of Padmasambhava’s Charismatic Teachings on Ladakhi Society and Way of LifeArticle

Lac Rearers of Bastar: The Rearers, the Bugs and their Commodified AfterlifeArticle

Tusu: A Harvest Festival of Chhota NagpurImage Gallery

Kolang and the Cult of Lingo: The Pus Kolang Expeditions of the Muria Gonds of BastarArticle

सरगुजा के बसोरArticle

What are the Differences between Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr?Article

बस्तर के जीवन में बांस/Bamboo in the Life of Bastar Article

Weaver Communities of IndiaArticle

Bhojali: Chhattisgarh’s Ritualistic Friendship FestivalArticle

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Celebrating Pus: the festivals of winter in Bastar

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The making of an artist: Sona Bai Rajwar/ सोना बाई रजवा…

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Bamboo in Chhattisgarh/छत्तीसगढ़ में बांस की भूमिका

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The Landscape of Lac Production in Bastar: a conversation between Arunpol Seal and Basant Yadav, President, Sahabhagi Samaj Sevi Sanstha

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Revisiting Sona Bai Rajwar- Mushtak Khan in Phuhputra 1983 and 2018

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Reminiscing Sona Bai Rajwar: Mushtak Khan with Daroga Ram Rajwar

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Bamboo Weaving from Bastar

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Swarnima Kriti

Devari: The Other Diwali in Chhattisgarh

Rajim Maghi Punni Mela in Rudri

Rajim Maghi Punni Mela in Rudri

मुश्ताक खान

लाख प्रशिक्षण केंद्र, माकड़ी, छत्तीसगढ़/Lac Training Centre, Makdi, Chhattisgarh

Articles

Arunpol Seal

Winter Winds: Of Saps, Resins and the Forests of Bastar

Practices and Rituals Natural Environment

Nawang Tsering Shakspo

The Impact of Padmasambhava’s Charismatic Teachings on Ladakhi Society and Way of Life

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Arunpol Seal

Lac Rearers of Bastar: The Rearers, the Bugs and their Commodified Afterlife

Practices and Rituals Natural Environment

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Tusu is a harvest festival celebrated by the Kurmi community of Chhota Nagpur Plateau in West Bengal and Jharkhand. (Courtesy: Pinki Biswas Sanyal)

Pinki Biswas Sanyal

Tusu: A Harvest Festival of Chhota Nagpur

Transgender people from across India and abroad gather in Koovagam, a village in the Ulundurpettai taluka in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu. The festival takes place every year over an 18-day period in the month of Chaitra (April/May). Transgender women take part in the Koovagam festival to re-enact the marriage of Aravan with Mohini, a story which appears in the Tamil versions of Mahabharata.

G. Pattabiraman

Thousand Weddings and a Funeral: Koovagam Festival and Cult of Aravan

The Tuluvas engage spiritually with a host of local spirits and deities during the annual celebration of Bhuta-Kola; bhuta meaning spirit and kola meaning play or performance, in the Tulu language. During the ritual, oracles summon bhutas and are temporarily possessed by them, forecasting future events or acting as mediators to provide moral guidance and resolve legal disputes.

Pradeep KS

Dance of the Spirits: Bhuta-Kola of Dakshin Kannada

The Chinese word gun refers to a long staff used as a weapon. It is one of the four major weapons, along with the qiang (spear), dao (sabre), and the jian (straight sword), used in Chinese martial arts.

Sujata Khanna

Training the Body and Mind: Kung-Fu Nuns of Kathmandu

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गोरखनाथ के समसामयिक सिद्ध/Gorakhnath ke Samasamyika Siddha

गोरख सिद्धान्त/Gorakh Siddhant

गोरखनाथ का अपदिष्ठ योग मार्ग/ Gorakhnath ka Upadishta Yoga Marga

गोरखनाथ/Gorakhnath

Chaumasa

सुवागीत/Suva Geet

Chaumasa

छत्तीसगढ़ी सुआ गीत/ Chhattisgarhi Sua Geet