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The Last Patua: One Man Keeping 1000-Year Art Alive
The Last Patua: One Man Keeping 1000-Year Art Alive Swapan Chitrakar's hands won't come clean. Red ochre. Yellow turmeric. Blue indigo. Stains from colors ground by hand. He's 67, nearly blind in one eye, and one of only five remaining Patua scroll painters in Nadia...
The Last Patua: One Man Keeping 1000-Year Art Alive
The Last Patua: One Man Keeping 1000-Year Art Alive Swapan Chitrakar's hands won't come clean. Red ochre. Yellow turmeric. Blue indigo. Stains from colors ground by hand. He's 67, nearly blind in one eye, and one of only five remaining Patua scroll painters in Nadia...
The 3 AM Ghost Train of Naihati Junction
The 3 AM Ghost Train of Naihati Junction I'm standing on Platform 3 of Naihati Junction at 2:47 AM, and I'm regretting this. It's December-cold. The platform's deserted except for one homeless man and a suspicious stray dog. I'm here investigating a ghost story that's...
Why We Travel to Kedarnath When Shiva Lives at Home
Why We Travel to Kedarnath When Shiva Lives at Home My grandmother wakes at 5 AM daily to worship the Shiva lingam in our puja room. She's done this for sixty years. Yet at 78, she insisted on making the treacherous journey to Kedarnath – 3,583 meters high, accessible...
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The 3 AM Ghost Train of Naihati Junction
The 3 AM Ghost Train of Naihati Junction I'm standing on Platform 3 of Naihati Junction at 2:47 AM, and I'm regretting this. It's December-cold. The platform's deserted except for one homeless man and a suspicious stray dog. I'm here investigating a ghost story that's...