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

When this evangelist is at play, Hinduism is pretty cool—and fun

Modern day tasting menus make us long for festival food

The possibilities of the occult in fiction

Colour, class and tradition in a vase. The meditations of a flower girl

A ban is not the answer. Let tradition live with strict rule of law

The remains of a decapitation 9,000 years ago reveal the complexity of ancient practices

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