carnival

The Day of the Goddesses

V Shoba

Telangana hosts India’s biggest carnival of tribal counterculture. Open chronicles the faith and frenzy on the river Godavari

Happy Hours at the Anna Carnival

Rahul Pandita

The mela around the televised Jantar Mantar fast-unto-death had just about everything to keep our urban ‘revolutionaries’ occupied, including a food fest

…and a Bit of Cricket

Akshay Sawai

As the carnival unfolded in a foreign field, the crowds were sober by Indian standards, actresses in luxury boxes tried to look jubilant, food sellers made money, and batting technique made a triumphant return