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Rajasthan

Folk Theorems

Ritika Kochhar

Tribal art gets mainstream status in the marketplace

Desert Storm

Every year in winter, a village in Rajasthan becomes the nerve centre of electronic music. Akhil Sood on the making of a camping festival

Padmavati: History as a Dispute

Blasts from the past strike modern India with unfailing regularity. The controversy over Padmavati focuses on the fact that what endangers freedom is the politicisation of protest in the name of freedom

Padmavati: The Legend of the Queen

From Rajput valour to nationalist heroism, the story of Padmavati has a rich socio-cultural tradition

Cow Vigilantism: Politics of the Sacred and the Profane

What cow vigilantism has done to undefended lives and livelihoods. Ullekh NP visits Alwar in Rajasthan and Jaisinghpur in Haryana to find out. Photos: Ashish Sharma

Tigers, Tribals and Tourism

Where conservation is not in conflict with consumerism

Shadows on the Sand

And a temple where they pray to a motorcycle

Make It Silly Policy

On the pride Rajasthan’s education department takes in evicting TS Eliot from a textbook

The Kota System: Rs 600 Crore Coaching Industry

Snazzy packaging, ironclad teacher contracts and study-on-the-go apps revive the city’s famed Rs 600 crore coaching industry

Desert Storm: Camels in the Zoo

A new bill threatens to become the straw that will break the back of Rajasthan’s camels, turning them into zoo animals. Could their milk save them?

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