Shafaat Shahbandari, Special to Gulf News

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Venice of the East: Unravelling golden fibre of Kerala

Coir is most available natural fibre but invasion of plastic rendered thousands jobless

Coir industry is among the biggest traditional industries in Kerala, employing more than 200,000 artisans, mostly from Alleppey.

Dhanushkodi - the ruined attraction of India

Ghost town is finding its spirit back thanks to explorers who find life in ruins

The ruins of Dhanushkodi let the travellers explore the unfamiliar and the exotic.

Karnataka’s temple town Banavasi stuck in time!

Quaint streets, millennium old temple offer rare opportunity to travel through time

The 9th century Madhukeshwar Temple is the star attraction in Banavasi.

HIV kids: Mother’s love prevails over social taboos

Mangaluru mother champions the cause of HIV orphans abandoned by the society

More than 60 HIV infected girls have found life of dignity at Sneha Deep in Mangaluru. The picture has been blurred to protect the identity of the children.

India women carve out a future from wooden cutlery

Group of enterprising women revive craft of wooden cutlery that goes back 500 years

Ghousia Begum (left) oversees the training of women at the Udayagiri craft cluster in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh.

India: How Udaipur store is encouraging people to give

‘Gift store’ is a space where people can walk in and take anything they want - for free

Children express their joy at finding their favourite items for free at Sukoon Store.

India: Humayun’s tomb is a sanctuary of peace

Mughal emperor’s resting place is first grand mausoleum built in Indo-Islamic style

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Humayun’s Tomb and its surrounding necropolis is an archeological gold mine.

India: Meet Mohammad Idrees, conjurer of Shivamogga

Entrepreneur sells handmade papers, parchments to museums, scholars, artists in 30 nations

Shaikh Mohammad Idrees is a self-taught polymath, innovator and multi-instrumentalist based in a small town in Karnataka, quietly carving out a niche for himself.

This mosque is crowning jewel of cultural confluence

The mosque on the East Coast is a magnificent testimony to true harmony of faiths

Inspired by the architecture of the famous Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram, the Kilakarai Juma Masjid is one of the most striking examples of India’s cultural harmony.

India: Life on edge for these Karnataka’s fishermen

'If I keep worrying about my safety, my children will go hungry, this keeps me going'

Around 60 per cent of small fishermen in Karnataka live in abject poverty, earning an average of Rs100 per day.

Educated Indian sisters take ancestral craft to world

After getting stuck at home during pandemic, engineer-doctor duo revive family business

Ashwini and her younger Dr. Harini have devoted their lives to revive the ancestral craft of their town through social media promotion and innovation in design and techniques.

In Old Delhi you eat like there is no tomorrow

From tikka & kebabs to biryani, Old Delhi has range no food lover can explore in one visit

Hot and succulent shahi tukda served with homemade mango ice-cream is a must have.

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