Is Well-Proofed Studio Key To Professional-Sounding Music?
A great studio is one of the best investments you can make. If you’re serious about recording yourself, then a well-built facility is one of the most important tools you’ll…
What Indian History Of Carpentry Teaches The Nurturing Professionals?
The experiences of Indian carpenters during the British Raj raise several questions that have contemporary resonances. Carpenters, along with blacksmiths, goldsmiths, brass smiths, and masons, have formed the core of…
How Colonial History Contributed to the Socio-Economic Status of Indian Tailoring Community?
Tailors are part of our intimate lives and yet we know very little about their histories and practices, perhaps because the profession contributed marginally to the national economy and was…
Women And Their ‘New-Age Maid-Of-Honour’
The clock on the wall strikes the designated hour and heart of the lady of the house begins to sink as her eyes start oscillating between the entrance gate and…
Is Bonded Labour’s Life In Hell?
Recently, on February 9, Tamil Nadu state observed the ‘Bonded Labour Abolition Day’ for the first time to mark the anniversary of the Bonded Labour System Abolition Act that was…
Sport Should Be Recognized As An Industry, Says CSRI
The Centre is Urged to Elevate the Status of Sport The Confederation of Sports and Recreation Industry (CSRI), India’s apex body and voice of the sports and recreation sectors, has…
Many Nostalgic Tales Of ‘Dak Bungalows’ In Telugu States
The Dak Banglows or Circuit houses, the government buildings of the Raj evoke nostalgia as they had a certain mystique about them. The mysterious tales are more popular in Telugu…
Pitting People Against Nature
India’s conservation laws, based on pseudoscience, have criminalised people’s defence against marauding wildlife. Democratically-constituted local bodies empowered to protect nature will be a more just way of nursing our heritage…
Troubled ‘Sex Workers’ And Their Livelihoods In Pandemic
Pandemic impact on sex workers and their children as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, it was clear that the sex workers’ community would be badly hit by it. Far…
How The Bollywood ‘Khan Market’ Down After Three Decades?
After three decades of entertaining India and the diaspora, the era of Bollywood’s reigning trinity seems to be fading out. It was around October 2016, I was working with India…