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At reCharkha – The EcoSocial Tribe, plastic fibre made from discards is made into utilitarian and aesthetic products

Amita Deshpande’s reCharkha is giving a new spin to discarded plastic

Saraswathy Nagarajan

Using the charkha and looms, Pune-based reCharkha – The EcoSocial Tribe, upcycles plastic trash into a range of aesthetic products

Test run with Little Amal

Puppet Little Amal walks 8,000 km, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother

Priyadarshini Paitandy

Anbe, a vernacular dating app by Aisle, is aimed at Tamil speakers

Priyadarshini Paitandy From biryani to Thalapathy, expect topics and conversations related to all things Tamil on Anbe, a Tamil-language dating app created by the folks over at Aisle

education You can count on Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’

Prabalika M. Borah Twenty-one-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, known as ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’, talks about his love for numbers and his ed-tech startup Exploring Infinities

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The newly-issued stamps for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth

Chechen Muslims pray in a mosque on the first day of Id-ul-Azha in Grozny, Russia.

Bakrid celebrations around the world: A kaleidoscope

Faith

Manifested life

Mantra to protect children

Kamsa sends Putana to kill the baby Krishna, growing up in Gokula. Srimad Bhagavatam says she went as a lovely lady. Why did Putana have to adorn herself and look good? It was the norm in the past for a mother to dress up well and look pleasant, when she picked up her child to feed it, so that the child looking at her would be happy. Nampillai says this practice was observed widely. The importance of breastfeeding is stressed thus, elaborated V.S. Karunakarachariar in a mantra. Also, the first

He enables worship

Thirumoolar in his Thirumantiram likens Lord Siva to clouds in the sky. He sees the relationship between himself and Lord Siva as that between a calf and its mother. He calls out to Lord Siva, who is known as Nandi, for who else can impart jnana to him? Lord Siva showers His blessings on those who inhabit the earth. He also lives among the celestials. He draws everyone like a magnet. He is fond of music, and Thirumoolar acknowledges that he sings Siva’s praises only because of the grace of the

History & Culture

History & Culture

The Kanjeevaram legacy

Chitra Deepa Anantharam

An aerial view of the majestic Town Hall, a heritage structure which is being renovated under the Smart City project, in Visakhapatnam.

Iconic Town Hall and Old Municipal Building to open to public soon

Nivedita Ganguly Renovation project carried out at a cost of ₹15 crore

Maria Christopher Byrski.

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A diplomat’s love of drama

G.S. Paul Maria Christopher Byrski, Sanskrit scholar and former Polish ambassador to India, continues his love for Koodiyattam and ancient Indian theatre

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Manifested life

sustainability Environment

Amita Deshpande’s reCharkha is giving a new spin to discarded plastic

Resident Watch Environment

A heron at home on an IT corridor

Faith

Mantra to protect children

The challenge of childcare during the pandemic

Elon Musk sends Chennai entrepreneur over the moon

Sunday quiz: What has August 1 ever given us?

Easy like Sunday morning

Find the queen

Both vulnerable, South deals

Poverty has been the dominant theme in my writings: economist C.T. Kurien

The distinguished professor has been a lifelong champion of using economic theories as tools to impact real-life situations

He enables worship

Thirumoolar in his Thirumantiram likens Lord Siva to clouds in the sky. He sees the relationship between himself and Lord Siva as that between a calf

Growing up non-binary in today’s India

Agender, genderfluid, bigender — children and young adults finally have a name to put to what they are feeling. Now parents and the society must learn how to be supportive and respectful

Terrorists call for inclusive snooping policy

Do you know that among the world’s poorest democracies, India is the only one with the courage to invest thousands of crores in state-of-the-art snooping technology?

Athlete Ila Mitra missed the 1940 Olympics, but became an indomitable peasant leader

Instead of sprinting in the 1940 Olympics, gifted athlete Ila Mitra was jailed and tortured for joining the famous Tebhaga peasant uprising in Bengal. Here is her story of immense courage

Foreign objects

Opinion | Of double agents and patriotic NRIs

Discarded sinks find new life as Jaipur Blue Pottery

By upcycling ceramic waste, interdisciplinary designer Disharee Mathur reinvents the heritage craft of Jaipur Blue Pottery at the ongoing, digital graduate show ‘RCA2021’

One must control senses

Vamana tells Mahabali that all He wants is land equal to what He can measure with three steps. This seems so insignificant a request, that Mahabali

How Vechoor Thankamani revived Thullal

Vechoor Thankamani enriched two of Kerala’s folk arts, Thullal and Kurathiyattam, in the past century, while retaining their simplicity

‘Krishikarna’, a project to promote hi-tech farming, launched in Pallikkal panchayat of Thiruvananthapuram

Ten farmers in the panchayat are setting up mini polyhouses under the project

These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth

An ongoing virtual philately exhibition, Olymphila India 2021, celebrates the Tokyo Olympics through various treasured postage stamps of history

In praise of Hanuman

Valmiki Ramayana has six kandas, but not one of them is named after the hero or heroine. In fact, no kanda is named after any character in the epic,

The Kanjeevaram legacy

Award winning artisan weaver, B Krishnamoorthy, is creating a repository with samples of all the designs, patterns and motifs traditional to Kanjeevaram silk sari weaving, preserving fine pieces for posterity

Anbe, a vernacular dating app by Aisle, is aimed at Tamil speakers

From biryani to Thalapathy, expect topics and conversations related to all things Tamil on Anbe, a Tamil-language dating app created by the folks over at Aisle

Rama’s truthfulness

Rama’s sterling qualities drew the whole of Ayodhya to Him. His auspicious qualities attracted not only His subjects, but also Azhvars and Acharyas,

This documentary about animal rescue is ‘a labour of love for the voiceless’

Featuring actors Shraddha Kapoor and Jim Sarbh, ‘The Tails of Boo Boo & Cuddly Poo’ is a passion-driven, quirky documentary that spreads the message of acceptance, rescue and care for India’s community cats and dogs

Puppet Little Amal walks 8,000 km, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother

Good Chance Theatre’s latest production features a Syrian puppet that will walk from Gaziantep to Manchester, to raise awareness on the refugee crisis

Madhu and Kaitabha

When Lord Narayana asked Brahma to create the world, Brahma became very proud of himself. To teach him a lesson, the Lord made two asuras — Madhu and

You can count on Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’

Twenty-one-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, known as ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’, talks about his love for numbers and his ed-tech startup Exploring Infinities

Don Bosco alumni address a less-known pandemic issue: The threat to the girl child’s education

As part of its initiative Min Siragugal, the school’s 1997 batch provides laptops to 50 underprivileged Class X girl students from two Adi-Dravidar schools on the outskirts of Chennai. It has plans to scale up the initiative

A community that is prepared for the rainy day

The numbers speak for themselves: Jains Pebble Brook in Chennai needs 3.3 lakh litres of water every day. During the rainy season, it manages this requirement 10 to 15 days in a month with just the bounty from the skies

Steps to realisation

Most of us who are involved in worldly concerns are said to be in Pravritti Marga. This kind of preoccupation ties us down to samsara, the cycle of

Parambikulam Tiger Reserve to conduct online video competition to observe Global Tiger Day on July 29

Entries to be accepted from July 29 on Instagram and Facebook pages of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve

Sunday Quiz: on spices and herbs

There is no sincerer love than the love of food: George Bernard Shaw

Technique

North bid four hearts when accepting South’s game try in case South had a four-card heart suit. South correctly went back to spades. The game was a

How one woman’s extraordinary efforts gave a poverty-stricken island its own English-medium school

In the Sundarbans, a teacher from Kolkata found people steeped in poverty, without one decent school for their children. She resolved to do something about it

Indian roots are not umbilical cords and no amount of spicy chicken tikka love can change that fact

That Wimbledon boys’ champion Samir Banerjee is actually American felt like an aside, with news anchors gushing about a “huge moment of pride for India”

Bond of karma

When the Lord incarnates as a human being, He is not bound by any karma or sorrow, as is with the case of all others right from Brahma to the smallest

Gira, on her own terms

Memories of working and interacting with the incomparable Gira Sarabhai

As the pandemic makes digital teaching the norm, these initiatives are bringing school to rural children

As children in rural India, with little access to gadgets and networks, are pushed into deeper marginalisation, a look at some initiatives that try to change this

Frames and the man: why Danish Siddiqui’s work makes him a hero

Opinion | Understanding what Danish Siddiqui did and why his work makes him a hero

Interpreting Rama’s lament

Valmiki showcases Rama’s equanimity of mind when Kaikeyi tells Him that she is conveying His father’s orders, namely, that the Pattabhishekam is

This Bengaluru-based pigeon hospital gets its winged patients delivered to the facility via Dunzo, Uber, Ola and other service providers

The door to the Audi opens, the seat is readied for the passenger: a pigeon swaddled inside a cardboard box. The injured bird has just been rescued

Identifying the jivatma

What is actually intended by an individual when he uses the term ‘I’? Generally it refers to both the body and the atma within. When it is said that a

Catch the documentary that captures Srishti Bakshi’s walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, to create awareness about violence on women

The journey and the compelling tales of women she met along the way, are now captured in a documentary titled WOMB - Women Of My Billion

Bakrid celebrations around the world: A kaleidoscope

Marking the end of the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca, Id-ul-Azha is celebrated throughout the world by Muslims to honour and commemorate Prophet Abraham’s

K Radhabai: an epitome of how spirit surmounts physical limitations

K Radhabai has never let visual impairment affect her progress in life

The realised soul

The Upanishads state that the Supreme Brahman is the highest principle and to reach Brahman is the ultimate goal of all beings. But how is Brahman to

The divine couple

Both Sivananda Lahari and Saundarya Lahari are excellent bhakti granthas of Adi Sankara that extol the innumerable facets of the boundless grace of

‘Poita bhat’ or ‘pazhamkanji’: India’s fermented rice finds its place under the sun

‘Masterchef Australia’ is late to the party. India’s fermented rice dishes, from Bengal’s ‘panta bhat’ to Kerala’s ‘pazhamkanji’, have long been moving up the culinary ladder from farms to restaurants, as gourmets discover their many benefits

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