Chhath Puja wouldn’t be complete without the soulful Chhath Geet, which adds a significant melody and devotion to the occasion. These folk songs are sung to honour Surya Dev (the Sun God) and Chhathi ...

Thailand’s national upstream company PTTEP has refined the development plans and timelines for several of its unexploited discoveries offshore Malaysia while its Lang Lebah giant gas project ...

A bloodthirsty female ghost out to take revenge—that is the popular representation of yakshi in folklore, literature, films, etc. The single, ‘Chenda Yakshi Pattu’ is yet another take on this popular ...

Geet Chaturvedi’s novel Simsim (2023), translated from Hindi by Anita Gopalan, introduced his richly evocative style to English readers. The Master of Unfinished Things, his recent collection of ...

For siblings Jeffrey Kochuveettil and Jonathan Kochuveettil, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, a chenda (traditional Kerala percussion instrument) brought to the US by their grandfather Thomas ...

KANNIYAKUMARI: The financial and social plights of the traditional artistes devoted to playing "chenda melam", the cylindrical percussion instrument that brings loudness and vibrancy to every Kerala ...

Indian rapper Hanumankind made a powerful debut at Coachella 2025, performing with a group of chenda drummers from Kerala. The musician took the stage in Indio, California, with a burst of energy and ...

Another video of Hanumankind performing the song that put him on the map, Big Dawgs, was also posted on an Instagram page. The crowd can be seen recording him on their phones, singing along and going ...

Crown Prince of Dubai shared the picture with his 16.9 million followers on Instagram Dubai: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a traditional Bihari welcome in Mauritius by the Indian diaspora on Tuesday. Women welcomed him with a Bihari cultural performance known as Geet Gawai. The PM is ...

Raipur: Chhollywood (C) actor and former Chairman of the Chhattisgarh Film Development Corporation, Rajesh Awasthi, has passed away at the age of 42 due to cardiac arrest in Gariaband on Sunday night.

On Saturday, January 25, Bollywood Hungama broke the news that six seconds of lip lock had been edited from the Shahid Kapoor-starrer Deva by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). For the ex ...