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Friday, March 24 2023

Londoners celebrate 59 years of oldest Durga Puja while the festival enjoys first year of UNESCO Heritage Tag

by Amrita Priya | Sep 29, 2022

(September 29, 2022) The conch shells have added festive fervour to the air much in advance this year. One of India’s biggest festivals and the most popular in West Bengal, ‘Durga Puja in Kolkata’ got inscribed in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible...

Dr Neharika Yadav helms the super biker’s helmet with same ease as her doctor’s coat

by Amrita Priya | May 30, 2022

(May 30, 2022) There aren’t many women bike racers in India. Amongst the few who have made a place for themselves in this male dominated space, is Dr Neharika Yadav, topping the list. The Gurgaon-based superbike racer juggles racing with dentistry, and that too with...

Photographer Omer Khan, who loves to shoot life, on his lucky escape from Afghanistan

by Vikram Sharma | Sep 13, 2021

(September 13, 2021) On August 24, when the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III took off from the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul and vanished in the sky after heading west, photographer Omer Farooq Faizi – one of the passengers on board the US aircraft – heaved a...