Nearly 700 workers are engaged in an ambitious project to renovate Mughal emperor Humayun's tomb, built in the 16th century, to its original splendour. Madhusree Chatterjee has the story

Want to see Goa in a totally different setting - without its shacks and crowds on the beaches? Now is the time to go and walk on rain soaked beaches, as many are doing at the moment

Bihar’s Dharhara village is unique. It celebrates birth of girl child by planting saplings. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says if all villages could be like Dharhara, Bihar will become greener

A singer and dancer, Ambika Kameshwar has reached out to special children, teaching them life skills through theatre. Besides starting RASA in Chennai, she developed her own methodology, Theatre for Holistic Development, says Hema Vijay

The Punjab Mail running between Mumbai and Ferozepur in Punjab enters its 100th year this month. It once used to cover the 2496 km between Bombay and Peshawar in 47 hours, says Quaid Najmi

Home stay, as a trend, is catching up in the hitherto unexplored tribal regions of Northeast. Azera Rahman says that tourists going for it return with an understanding of an exotic culture

Situated 6,300 feet above sea level, a school in Kashmir has not let any of the problems related to insurgency prevent its students, mostly girls, from pursuing education, say Anjali Singh

Before books go out of fashion completely, Vimala Malhotra wanted to ensure that children took to the habit of reading. Marianne de Nazareth reads the past of Hippocampus, the kid’s library

In an idyllic village of Kerala, Mithun Madhusudan finds an ashram, whose founder Hari Govindan aspires to give a new life to Sopana Sangeetham, the traditional music of God’s Own Country

How passionate can journalists get on the subjects they write about? Rajendra Aklekar, who wrote about railways, went on to form the Bombay Railway History Group. Prachi Bari met the man

Poverty did not deter the muse in him. Though he had work as a rickshaw puller for a living, Rehman Ali never stopped writing poetry. His 11th book was recently released, says Arpit Gupta

Where Vinobha Bhave started his Bhoodan movement, weavers still enjoy the benefits of the past. Marianne de Nazareth visited Pochampally as a media fellow under the aegis of the IASC 2011

To relive the glory of a royal past, all one has to do is to step inside the house of the Raza family, whose mansion in Lucknow is a literal throwback to a different era, says Mohd Faisal Fareed

Sitar player Shubhendra and cello exponent Saskia are in Bengaluru to create an interest among students on Indian classical music. Marianne de Nazareth strikes a chord with the couple

He first tried to understand theatre professionals. Then he understood rural poverty. So he used culture as a developmental tool. Rina Mukherji meets the IIT trained Amitava Bhattacharya