Culture

This summer, encourage your child to choose the wheel. Well, the pottery one. Here are retreats and one-day workshops across India to pick from.

A museum born from the Sanatkada Lucknow Festival, Lucknow Bioscope is preserving crafts, music, and untold stories of the city — straight from its lanes and local artisans.

The British may have brought in India’s railways to gain profit and control. But Indians turned those very tracks into powerful tools of resistance and unity. From carrying revolutionaries to spreading ideas, trains played an unforgettable role freedom struggle.

Sameera Reddy and Manjri Varde opened up to us about how they’ve nurtured a saas-bahu bond that’s refreshingly real, supportive, and far from stereotypical.

Every time Vande Mataram is sung, it leaves Indians with an aftertaste of hope and a reminder of the struggles that are etched in the country’s history.

Built over 500 years ago, Udaipur’s interconnected lakes still supply water to lakhs of people. Here’s how this ancient system blends ecology, engineering, and community — in pictures.

Indian art, culture, and science are getting global recognition today thanks to the foundation laid by these historic personalities who decided to do things differently.

Explore how mobile libraries are changing access to books in India. From horseback in Uttarakhand to the Bookworm Bus in Delhi, these mobile libraries are bringing stories to all.

From vada pav in Mumbai to Warli art in Palghar, here’s what 10 districts in Maharashtra are best known for (hint: it’s not monuments).

Bandana Jain fell in love with cardboard in art school. Today, from her Vasai studio, she sculpts life-sized installations from discarded boxes — and trains rural women to turn waste into art, income, and dignity.