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TBI Photo Essay: The Hornbill Festival – A Visual Treat

The Hornbill Festival, held in the first week of December every year, is a marvelous riot of colour that shows off the rich fare of diverse cultures and traditional arts that is Nagaland. Here you can witness the attires, folk music and dance forms, headgears, cuisines, paintings, handicrafts, and other intricacies of the varied tribes and sub-tribes of the state, as Meena Vaidyanathan did. Here we invite you to take a look at the festival just gone by through her words and lens, while hoping you can make it there yourself this year!

January 22, 2013 / No Comment / Read More

On World Literacy Day, Susheela’s Kolams Traveled Across The Nation

September 12, 2012 No Comment

Pratham Books celebrated International Literacy Day in a unique way – by holding storytelling sessions for thousands of children across India. Read an account of one such session held by our friend and writer in Assam, and learn about the beautiful experience storytelling can be – both for the listener and the teller, while serving as an important educational aid.

TBI Travel: Sualkuchi – Weaving “Responsible” Dreams

July 26, 2012 No Comment

As our hearts and prayers go out to the unfortunate people in Assam facing the brunt of turbulent times, we take a look at one of the state’s indigenous arts that is both beautiful and innovative. Meena Vaidyanathan visits Sualkuchi, a weavers’ village where silk is made differently and humanely, and discovers little-known facets of [...]

TBI Travel: Flowing With The Jia-Bharali

April 24, 2012 No Comment

Meena Vaidyanathan continues her exploration of India’s little-known rivers to enlighten and enchant our readers with the little secrets they hold. In the second post in this series (read the first one here), she gets lured by the lilting beauty of the Jia-Bharali in Assam, all along the Nameri National Park. The promise of impending [...]

TBI Travel: Discovering the magic of Nila

April 5, 2012 No Comment

The Better India has chosen April as the Travel Month. As the summer holidays approach, parents and children all over India start making plans to visit some place they have never been to before. In our posts, you will learn of places very few know of and some places that many know of, but all [...]