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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicTraditions

Topic: traditions

Uttarakhand villages reach out to world of fairies. Offer them gun replicas, staff & flute

Villagers in the mountains of Uttarakhand make a small home for fairies with stones and decorate it with red, yellow and white clothes.

How Halloween turned from ancient Irish tradition to adult way of playing with identity

Halloween has become a tradition many new immigrants adopt along their journey toward American-ness and locals are reinventing it to adapt it to their own culture.

For RSS, Hindu ideal is Shiv-Parvati marriage with man-woman on equal footing

Families are not meant to stay in isolation. They should maintain harmonious relations with relatives, neighbours and the community.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.