Ilkal sarees worn by women in North Karnataka | Photo Credit: Navaldeep Thareja “You are not a Bharwad if you wear a saree,” is how elderly Bharwad women chide young women from their community. Navaldeep Thareja, a textile engineer from Sangrur in Punjab, who often visits little-known places across India to meet craftspeople, artisans, weavers, and tribal people and photo documents […]
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Manjuben grinding masala in a mortar. It’s the fruiting season of the prickly pear — a type of cactus that grows mostly in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Manjuben Mansukhbhai Mori, 65, of Reshamiya village in Gujarat, eagerly awaits this time of the year. “I make a juice from the prickly pear fruit,” she says. “I have […]
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(Clockwise from top left) Ladakhi kitchen utensils, textile exhibits in Amer, Kala Bhoomi, Central Asian Museum, and Bharat Kala Bhavan Among the highlights of my journeys through India researching textiles over the last two decades has been the discovery of some lesser-known museums. While my effort as an independent curator has been, often, to consistently question […]
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Bilkis Bano was gang raped and seven members of her family were killed. Image for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna One of the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder of her family members case, freed last year under Gujarat’s remission policy, has shared the stage with BJP MP Jaswant […]
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Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilisers, launching the Saurashtra Tamil Sangamam at a function held in the city on Sunday. Union Minister L. Murugan, State BJP president K. Annamalai and Gujarat State Minister Kunwarji Bavaliya are also present | Photo Credit: RAGU R. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of […]
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Gujarat High Court | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji The Gujarat CID on March 3, 2023 arrested former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma for allegedly causing loss to the state exchequer by illegally allotting land at an undervalued price in 2004-05 during his tenure as the Collector of Kutch district, official said. A first information report (FIR) […]
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Aera, the first electric bike with a 4-speed gearbox, has a liquid-cooled, 5kWh battery with a claimed 125km real-world range Matter Energy has launched its first electric bike — Aera — priced at ₹1.44 lakh for the 5,000 variant and ₹1.54 lakh for the higher-spec 5,000+ variant (ex-showroom, India, including FAME-II subsidy, excluding state subsidies). […]
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“History is one way of telling stories, just like myth, fiction or oral storytelling.” The words of speculative fiction author Ursula K Le Guin caution readers as they embark on Nikhil Gulati and Jonathan Mark Kenoyer’s journey through the Indus Valley. Penguin Random House’s newly-released graphic novel The People of the Indus is a 192-page […]
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Heartburn for party workers as BJP denies tickets to 38 sitting legislators, fielding fresh faces, Congress turncoats, and non-local leaders instead Heartburn for party workers as BJP denies tickets to 38 sitting legislators, fielding fresh faces, Congress turncoats, and non-local leaders instead The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first list of 160 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly […]
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The move came just before the National Parliamentary Board of the BJP began its crucial meeting on September 09 to select candidates for the election The move came just before the National Parliamentary Board of the BJP began its crucial meeting on September 09 to select candidates for the election Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay […]
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