A poet digs into questions about the roots of our humanity in the wake of a new storm gathering around the sanctity and status of our places of worship

In Jharkhand, Shraddhanand composes songs in Asur, the mother tongue of his community

In Khurja, Uttar Pradesh, Hameed Ahmed and his brothers have kept alive a distinctive kick-wheel technique of pottery for over seven generations. But the switch to gas-fired kilns is squeezing profit margins for everyone

One of Moradabad's oldest crafts – sia kalam, the art of hand engraving on brass metal artifacts – is an inherited skill and masters of the art are revered in the community

In the face of public apathy, absence of sustained state support, and changing ideas of entertainment, young and old Therukoothu artistes in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram struggle to keep their passion alive