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From Jodhpur To Ayodhya On Bulls, Preserved Through Herbs: The Story Of Ghee To Be Used For Ram Lalla's First Aarti

From Jodhpur To Ayodhya On Bulls, Preserved Through Herbs: The Story Of Ghee To Be Used For Ram Lalla's First Aarti

Nishtha Anushree
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‘Garba Of Gujarat’ Declared As Intangible Heritage By UNESCO

‘Garba Of Gujarat’ Declared As Intangible Heritage By UNESCO

Arun Kumar Das
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Gujarat's Garba Is Now In List Of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Gujarat's Garba Is Now In List Of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Swarajya News Staff
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'Animal': Sandeep Reddy Vanga 2 – Liberals 0

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K Balakumar
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Why The Insidious Anti-Hindu Communalism Of Certain Directors Goes Scot-Free

Anonymous Contributor
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Napoleon Film Review: Ridley Scott’s Waterloo

Venu Gopal Narayanan
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Kashi Tamil Sangamam 2023 To Be Held From 17 December To 30 December, Registration Portal Launched By IIT Madras

S Rajesh
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M P N Ponnusamy: A Nagaswara Legend Passes Away Almost Unsung

K Balakumar
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Skanda Sashti Wisdom: May Murugan's Spear Pierce Through Colonial Frameworks

Aravindan Neelakandan
Skanda. (Wikimedia Commons)

Kushan Period Copper Coins Discovered At Mohenjo Daro In Sindh, Marks First Such Discovery Since Pakistan's Formation

Nishtha Anushree
Pot of coins discovered

Tiruvannamalai Arunachaleswarar Temple Shopping Complex Issue - TR Ramesh Speaks To Swarajya

S Rajesh
TR Ramesh has said that the proposed construction of a shopping complex in front of the Gopuram of the Arunachaleswarar Temple in Tiruvannamalai is illegal

B.N. Goswamy (1933-2023) - A Life In Art

Rohit Pathania
B.N. Goswamy (Facebook)

How Essential Are Firecrackers To Diwali? (Hint: Very)

Aditya Saraff
Children celebrating Diwali. (Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Advani's Mandir Movement Continues: Ayodhya Temple To Get Ram Naam Inscribed Pothis From Somnath For Inauguration

Nishtha Anushree
Stockpile of bricks sent by devotees for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

J&K: Diwali Celebrated At Mata Sharda Devi Temple At LoC After 75 Years

Swarajya Staff
Pic Via Twitter

Ayodhya's Deepotsav Illuminates City With Record-Breaking 22 Lakh Diyas

Swarajya News Staff
The holy 'Deepotsav 2023' organised in Ayodhya on 11 November 2023 (Photo: Yogi Adityanath/X)

Celebrating Return Of Rama: Ayodhya Eyes World Record With Lighting Of 24 Lakh 'Diyas' On 'Deepotsav'

Swarajya Staff
Deepotsav celebrations in Ayodhya (File photo) (Pic Via Twitter)

Think Lakshmi Signifies Only Riches? Welcome To The Hindu Concept Of Abundance

Aravindan Neelakandan
Lakshmi by Raja Ravi Varma (Wikimedia Commons) 

Think Lakshmi Signifies Only Riches? Welcome To The Hindu Concept Of Abundance

Aravindan Neelakandan
Lakshmi by Raja Ravi Varma (Wikimedia Commons) 

A Prayer For This Diwali: Lead Us From Untruth to Truth

Anantanand Rambachan
People light diyas on Diwali in New Delhi, India. (Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via GettyImages) 

1737 CE-When Bhai Mani Singh Was Tortured To Death For Celebrating Deepavali

Aravindan Neelakandan
A devotee lighting the candles in Harmandar Sahib Complex (Munish Byala/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Drape In Tradition: Five Handloom Picks To Illuminate Your Deepavali Celebrations

Shefali Vaidya
Weaving traditions: Five must-have handloom sarees for your Deepavali collection

The Missing Lights: Why Doesn’t Kerala Celebrate Deepavali?

Venu Gopal Narayanan
The festive cheer of Diwali is absent in Kerala (Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash)

Indians Are Asia’s Biggest Foreign Tourists — And AI Is Smoothing The Experience

Anand Parthasarathy
Indians lead all Asian countries in travelling abroad. (Photo: McKinsey India travel report, November 2023)

Every Street Ayodhya: What RSS Plans For 22 January 2024

Swarajya Staff
The under-construction Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya (Pic Via Twitter)

Why Is Tamil Cinema Fixated With Box-Office Numbers? The Figures Are Mostly Unreliable

K Balakumar
Screengrab from the trailer of Leo

Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple Funds Issue - TR Ramesh Speaks To Swarajya On Govt's Cultural Centre Project

S Rajesh
TR Ramesh has said that the construction of a cultural centre with Kapaleeswarar Temple funds would violate the HRCE Act

Literature Fests In India Were All About Patting Backs And Clinking Glasses, But No More

Sharan Setty
The Pondy Lit Fest started in 2018.

Visva-Bharati Plaque Row: Time's Up! Why Centre Must Remove The Vice Chancellor Immediately

Jaideep Mazumdar
The controversial marble plaques installed by Visva-Bharati Vice Chancellor

The Most Boring World Cup? Hold Your Horses, Please!

K Balakumar
Mohammed Shami was in top bowling form against England at Lucknow (Photo: BCCI/X)

When The British Said “Hail The Queen”, Hindus In Fiji Replied - “Ramayana Maharani Ki Jai”  

Sumati Mehrishi
The Fijian troupe at the fifth International Ramayana Festival

US Offers India 1,414 Objects Of "Indian Provenance" For Repatriation, Includes Antiquities From The Met New York

Swarajya News Staff
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) entrance façade in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City (Photo: Lucas Ferretti/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)

Deepavali As A Festival Of Freedom In South Africa 

Aravindan Neelakandan
Nelson Mandela (REVOR SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Timeless, Spaceless, Ageless: 'Parva' is Philosophy in Motion

Gautam Chikermane
Prakash Belawadi's theatrical adaptation of S.L. Bhyrappa's Parva (Instagram)

Lords Of The Wrestling Ring: A History of Mysuru’s Vajramushti Kalaga

M Raghuram
Vajramushti wrestlers in battle. 

What Makes Himachal Pradesh The Devi Bhoomi Of Durga’s Depiction In Art  

Sumati Mehrishi
A ‘mohra’ depicting a manifestation of the Devi

NCERT Panel Suggests Replacing India With Bharat In School Textbooks, Highlight Hindu Victories: Report

Nishtha Anushree
NCERT (Picture via Twitter)

Ravana’s Death And Mandodari’s Lamentation 

Bibek Debroy
Ravana falls (Wikimedia Commons) 

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