by sainikbiswas | Aug 7, 2023 | Projects
Chinese All Souls Day Tangra is a region in east Kolkata that traditionally housed a large number of tanneries owned by people of Hakka Chinese origin. Chinese people, principally ethnic Hakka from the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian, have lived in Kolkata...
by sainikbiswas | Aug 6, 2023 | Projects
The Golden Jejuri Jejuri’s famous Somvati Amavasya festival, when the town dances the yellow dance with Lord Khandoba, falls on a Monday (Lord Shiva’s auspicious day) or Somvar, when the people of the town offer pure tumeric powder to the idols and to each...
by sainikbiswas | Aug 5, 2023 | Projects
Widow Celebration “Phoenix ~ Rising from the ashes!” I once asked Manu Ghosh what it feels like to be a widow in the ancient holy city of Vrindavan, India. The look on her face told me… nothing.Because the scriptures solemnly forbid a widow from feeling...
by sainikbiswas | Aug 4, 2023 | Projects
The Dying Art of Dyeing With the modernization of power loom, the ancient art of dyeing is literally dying. Weavers are leading a difficult life and the situation will not change until the handloom sector is supported. A split second storyteller who tells...
by sainikbiswas | Aug 3, 2023 | Projects
Aajibaichi Shala “I wish I could read at least the holy books” when 85 year old Sitabai B Deshmukh told Yogendra Bangar, a local teacher from Phagane Village, Thane District, he along with Dilip Dalal of Motiram Dalal Trust, took up the challenge of lettering...
by sainikbiswas | Aug 2, 2023 | Projects
Drought “We don’t know how we are surviving and how long we will survive” said Phoolchand with his voice dripping with resignation. Bundelkhand Region, covering a part of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh missed 3 seasons of monsoons and all around there are endless...