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Swami Devendrananda teaches society to value children in a backward district of West Bengal

Author of three books, Vikram Sampath has set up a repository of gramophone recordings from all over India

Trounced by the open market, Kolkata’s auction houses are today selling knock-offs and even clothes in their bid to survive

The Beyond Sight Foundation is taking the art of photography to India’s visually impaired

Crèches provides safe and healthy living conditions for the children of migrant workers

Surprisingly insulated from the rapidly changing surrounds, this is the favourite haunt of visitors from far and near

It took the resolve of one man to transform the lives of 1,267 young women in Uttar Pradesh

A small shop in Kolkata, India, holds on to its traditional profession of violin making even as the country’s musical landscape sways to the tune of changing times

He may be a well-known artist and writer but these days he is preoccupied with dripping taps and the need to conserve water

The renowned percussionist has thrived on breaking rules

Vinyl records are returning to Kolkata as music lovers realise that the modern digital formats cannot match their quality of sound

Swagat Thorat’s endless fascination for the ways the visually challenged adapt to their disability