Like jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, Kambala, Karnataka’s traditional buffalo race in slush, still continues, albeit with political and corporate support. Suprabha N K has the story

Sankalpa is a theatre group with a difference, as it works to change the lives of convicts. Marianne de Nazareth profiles Hulugappa Kattimani, who has brought criminals in Karnataka jails under the arc lights, reforming them in the process

Complaining that Government packages bypass them and reach cooperative societies, traditional weaves have raised a set of demands. One of them is access to market, says Madhusree Chatterjee
 

Working on a riot of colours, the mother-son designer duo Riimple and Mayyur Girotra have taken inspiration from the opulent Mughal and Victorian eras to create their latest couture collection

Advertising is an unfair world. Small fellows with better products cannot always compete with big players with deep pockets, says top adman Srinivasan K Swamy, in an interview to Marie Banu

Actor Amitabh Bachchan uses his own ‘media’ power, his blog, to hit back at the paparazzi for blocking his car as he left the SevenHills Hospital in Mumbai Thursday evening after a surgery

Pained at the destruction of traditional houses, Vijayanath Shenoy started ‘collecting' them. His love for heritage has been documented by Anita Pratap in prose and Mahesh Bhat in pictures

The union home ministry takes the fight into the gay camp as it tells the Supreme Court that Section 377 of the IPC is needed to check cases of child sex abuse and other unnatural offences

In a midnight gunbattle in Chennai that reportedly lasted for an hour, Tamil Nadu police shot dead five - including 4 from W. Bengal - suspected to be involved in two recent robberies

Chandigarh is set to host its 40th annual Rose Festival at the 30-acre Rose Garden, which has nearly 40,000 rose plants of over 800 rose species from all over the world, says Jaideep Sarin

Solang Valley in Himachal Pradesh is turning into a popular destination for skiers and comes alive when much of northern India retreats into the warmth of well-heated homes, says Santosh Rao

Madhuri Dixit, the Bollywood diva who wowed the 1990s youth with hit numbers such as ‘ek, do, teen’ is back wooing her fans, reaching out to them on Facebook and Twitter

Sayed Irshad Ali from Udaipur in Rajasthan is in Bhopal these days seeking justice for victims of the Bhopal gas leak through his provocative hoardings and posters. Shahnawaz Akhtar reports

If you want to look right, you have to learn to love your body, model – turned -Bollywood item girl – turned – author, Yana Gupta, told Madhusree Chatterjee at the Jaipur Literature Festival

Women have become vulnerable for sexual exploitation in cyberspace, elucidates Donna Demetillo-Mendoza citing examples from Philippines, which is emerging as a global hotspot of cyber porn