New Delhi, March 27: A small band of artists is exploring taboos of alternative sexuality, erotic love and the body as a medium of extreme expression of anger, passion and protest on the visual canvas.
New Delhi, March 25: The Ganga, deified by Hindus and intrinsic to its literature and lore while providing water to over 40 percent of India’s population in 11 states, has become a victim of poor management, bad policy and lack of will by the government to save the river in the last 25 years, say experts.
Here are some facts on the river Ganga Size of the river: 2,525 sq km Source: Gaumukh (Gangotri glacier) at 4,100 metres above sea level Ganga basin: More than one million square km (1,060,000 sq.km) States it traverses: Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Delhi.
Kandhamal (Odisha), March 22: Abject poverty is pushing many young girls from Odisha’s Kandhamal district, that witnessed terrible communal riots in August 2008, into the sex trade.
New Delhi, March 18: A few years back, a boat trip down the Chambal river in north India would have yielded a surreal sight – groups of gharials basking in the sun on the sandy stretches, their long, slender snouts wide open.
Shopian (Srinagar), March 13: Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called ‘Talaab Gaam’ because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it.
New Delhi/Srinagar, March 11: Some days ago, on a wind-swept, desolate mountainside in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kargil district, infra-red cameras captured a shape moving about in the cold winter night.
New Delhi, March 8: Bordered by barbed wires and huge iron gates, a dilapidated amphitheatre in old Delhi’s Kabir Basti is home to over 30 mentally ill women who have found their way from dump yards and streets to the shelter home called ‘Sudinalaya – a house of memories’.
Bhopal, March 7: For a woman, a toilet is more important than a mobile phone, but men don’t understand that, feels Anita Narre.
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