I was driving down back home, accompanied by these 3 kids. I could clearly sense their excitement about sitting in a car. One among them shouted with a thumping voice “FM please”…

Pattu is the traditional dress of the local women. When compared to shawls, it is thicker and heavier and the colors used are fast and bright. This woolen fabric is woven in different colors (usually bright) and designs. A single piece of Pattu covers the whole body. A piece of cloth called gachchi (belt) is tied around the waist…

Thangkas were originally intended to serve as a record of, and guide for contemplative experience. They were intended to convey iconographic information in a pictorial manner. A text of the same meditation would supply similar details in written descriptive form. Here’s a multimedia story on the making of these scrolls…

In Hinduism, one of the ways to achieve Nirvana (Liberation) is to die at Benaras. Death, which elsewhere is feared, here is welcomed as a long-expected guest. However strange, people travel from far way to spend their last days at this place and achieve something which is regarded as one of the most difficult of spiritual goals…