Culture

From Mumbai to Srinagar, and Sikkim and Ooty, these flower festivals across India bring gardens alive with colour from February to May 2026.

A near-drowning on their first date could have ended everything. Instead, it became the start of a love story that led Vrushali and Danish from non-swimmers to Ironman races and English Channel crossings — always side by side.

When Ramya Sriram travelled to north Kerala to document Theyyam, she did not expect one powerful frame to gain global attention. Here’s the story behind that award-winning moment.

On World Radio Day, Indians across generations recall how radio once shaped their mornings, routines, and memories — from Vividh Bharati stories to cricket commentary and cassette recordings.

As board exams near, pressure quietly enters many Indian homes. Nearly two decades after Taare Zameen Par, parents are choosing kinder conversations — focusing less on marks and more on effort, emotions, and support. This feature shares how real families are reframing failure, easing fear, and helping children feel safe, seen, and confident.

Through the power of community radio, the women residing in villages across Haryana’s Nuh and Rajasthan’s Alwar are ensuring they no longer sit in silence, but partake equally in decision making, village planning, and their livelihoods.

Odisha’s Rajat Kumar Panigrahi is a zoology lecturer by day. But when office hours conclude, he dons another role — that of a preserver of folk art and music, through his online repository Matir Kala.

Actor Mona Singh grew up moving cities, faced years of auditions in Mumbai, and found her first break on Indian television before cinema followed, slowly and steadily.

Before it had a campus to call its own, Delhi University began life inside a working cinema building.

From Meerut’s quiet lanes to some of Hindi cinema’s most memorable stories, screenwriter Sumit Arora’s journey has been shaped by instinct, resilience, and imagination. In this conversation, he reflects on the road that brought him here.