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Ajrakh Fabric, Sixteen Rounds of Handblock Printing, and Why the Craft Price Is Justified

The cloth arrives undyed and already exhaustedBefore a single block touches it, the fabric has been washed in a solution of camel dung, castor oil, and soda ash for three days. This is called saaj. It sounds like a joke until you understand what it does: it strips the cotton…

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Banni Grasslands of Kutch: What India's Largest Grassland Holds and What Is Erasing Its Wildlife

A Grassland That Doesn't Look Like OneMost people picture a grassland as something lush and open, rolling green, the kind of place that announces itself. Banni does the opposite. It sits on the northern edge of the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, a flat, sun-baked plain that looks, to an…

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Ancient Whale Fossils in Kutch, Gujarat Reveal How Cetacean Evolution Moved From Land to Sea

A Desert That Was Once a Shallow SeaThe Rann of Kutch looks nothing like an ocean. It is flat, salt-white, and so dry that it cracks in summer. But roughly 50 million years ago, this region sat at the edge of the ancient Tethys Sea, a warm, shallow body of…

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Leheriya Is Rajasthani Tiedye That Indian Fashion Keeps Stealing, Renaming, and Forgetting

The fabric that keeps getting a new nameA runway sends out diagonal-striped silk. A fast-fashion brand drops "wave-print" kurtas. A luxury label calls it "artisanal resist craft." The Rajasthani dyer in Jaipur who woke up at five in the morning to twist wet fabric into tight diagonals before the sun…

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What Gujarati Bandhani Fabric Tells You About Craft, Regional Pride, and the Art of Resist Dyeing

The binding comes before the colourBefore a single drop of dye touches Gujarati bandhani fabric, someone has spent hours pinching the cloth into tiny peaks and winding thread around each one. Thousands of them, sometimes, on a single dupatta. The thread is the point. It holds the cloth shut against…

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Kutch Is Where the Rann Ends and the Artisans Begin: Crafts That Belong to No Other Place

The Rann Is the Threshold, Not the DestinationYou arrive at the white desert and think you have arrived at Kutch. The Rann of Kutch is enormous and genuinely strange, a seasonal salt marsh that turns solid and blinding white in winter, stretching toward Pakistan in one direction and the Arabian…

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Dholavira Is Still Empty, and That Is the Only Reason You Should Go to This UNESCO Harappan Site Now

The city that outlasted everything except being knownDholavira has been standing, in one form or another, for five thousand years. It outlasted the civilisation that built it. It outlasted the river that fed it. It outlasted the scholarship that ignored it for decades while Mohenjo-daro and Harappa collected all the…

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Five Salt Lakes and Flats Across India That Rival Sambhar and Rann of Kutch for Travel

Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India's Largest Inland Saline LakeMost Indian travellers who know Sambhar know it only as a name on a map between Jaipur and Ajmer. The lake itself, roughly 230 square kilometres at full spread, sits in a shallow basin that has been harvested for salt since at least…

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Gujarat's Hidden Stepwells: 5 Ancient Vav Sites That Are Free, Quiet, and Worth Every Detour

Rani ki Vav, Patan, The One That Earned a UNESCO Badge and Still Gets IgnoredPatan is 125 kilometres north of Ahmedabad. The drive takes under two hours. Rani ki Vav was built in the 11th century by Queen Udayamati of the Solanki dynasty as a memorial to her husband, King…

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Lesser vs Greater Flamingo: Why India's Sewage Ponds Have Become a Pink Sanctuary

Two birds, one glance, and where the differences actually areStand at the edge of Thane Creek on a winter morning and you will see tens of thousands of flamingos turning the water pink. What you almost certainly won't do, without a field guide and some patience, is correctly sort them…

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Why Buying Handloom Fabric in India Is a Political Act, Not Just a Fashion Choice

The cloth that embarrassed an empireIn 1921, Gandhi asked Indians to burn imported British mill cloth in public bonfires. This was not symbolism. It was a calculated economic strike: Lancashire's textile mills depended on Indian cotton exported cheaply, processed in England, and sold back to Indians at a profit. The…

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What Rann Utsav in Gujarat Is Really Like When the Festival Crowds Arrive at Kutch

The cold arrives before the moon doesYou book the tent cottage in October, when the Rann Utsav website loads slowly and the photographs look exactly like every other photograph you have seen of it. White. Flat. Luminous. You assume you are prepared. You are not prepared for the cold. The…

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Why Mumbai's Flamingos Thrive in Sewage Wetlands: What Their Survival Tells Us About Adaptation

A Beak Built for the Worst Water in the RoomThe lesser flamingo, Phoeniconaias minor, pumps its inverted beak roughly 20 times per second when feeding. Inside that beak sit rows of fine hair-like structures called lamellae, a biological filtration system so precise it can isolate cyanobacteria and microscopic algae from…

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5 Indian Cities Where Food Alone Is Worth the Travel: Eating Your Way Across India

Kolkata: The City That Feeds You Before You AskKolkata does not wait for you to find food. It finds you. Step off a train at Howrah and within three minutes someone is selling you a kathi roll so good that the Nizam's restaurant on Park Street, which invented it, still…

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PM Modi receives grand welcome from Indian diaspora on arrival in Seychelles

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome in Seychelles, with the Indian diaspora and President Patrick Herminie greeting him upon arrival. A vibrant cultural display, including a Kutch dance, highlighted the diaspora's dedication to preserving Indian heritage. Modi later participated in a tree plantation drive and visited giant tortoises,…

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Reliance AGM 2026: Sun rises on RIL's green empire with a 2 lakh jobs promise

Reliance’s clean energy roadmap at AGM 2026: Reliance Industries used its AGM 2026 to showcase the scale of its clean energy ambitions, with Executive Director Anant Ambani saying the company's new energy businesses will create more than 200,000 green jobs and begin making a meaningful contribution to earnings from FY27.

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Life Against the Sun: Rare Survivors of India’s Harsh Deserts

When we imagine deserts, we often think of emptiness. Endless sand, burning heat, silence that feels lifeless. But India’s deserts tell a very different story. Beneath the blazing sun and inside the shifting dunes lives a fragile world of animals that have learned to survive where life seems impossible. These…

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Best Hotels in Kutch, Gujarat for Relaxing Getaways and Peaceful Retreats

Kutch, Gujarat, is a land of contrasts—vast salt deserts, vibrant handicrafts, and rich cultural heritage. While it attracts travelers for its festivals, wildlife, and historic sites, it is also the perfect destination for those seeking a peaceful and relaxing retreat. From cozy heritage homestays to luxurious resorts, the region offers…

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Yellow alert issued in coastal areas of Saurashtra, South Gujarat for next three days

Temperature in the coastal regions can also rise whereas Kutch and the South Saurashtra region can experience immense heat. Due to the same, a yellow alert has been issued as a precautionary measure. Read further on Dynamite News:

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High fever takes 12 lives, including 4 children, after heavy rains in Gujarat

After heavy rains, a strange fever has claimed the lives of 12 people in Gujarat's Kutch area, including four children. The area, which is known for its severe weather, is currently dealing with a health issue that is causing anxiety for the local government and the citizens.

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Gujarat's forest guards maintain water points amid heatwaves to protect endangered Khur Wild Ass in Rann of Kutch

In an attempt to save the near-extinct Wild Ass and other species, forest guards have created water points where water is supplied regularly in Gujarat's Little Rann of Kutch which faces severe heatwaves in summer. Read further on Dynamite News:

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5 states including Delhi NCR issued red alert for intense heatwave: Know what precautions you need to take

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts a severe heatwave to persist across northwest India's plains, including north Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, over the next five days. West Rajasthan is experiencing the most intense conditions, with significant impacts in east Rajasthan, Gujarat, and west Madhya Pradesh. Haryana, West Uttar Pradesh, Punjab,…

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Indian Coast Guard rescues fisherman drowning off Kutch coast

The Indian Coast Guard carried out a swift operation and rescued a fisherman from drowning in the sea, near the Kutch coast. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Kutch: Struggle for water in ‘har ghar jal’ Gujarat, salt workers fight for livelihoods

Six years ago, Rakesh was inside his home in Siddhrana village, located in Siddhpur tehsil of Gujarat’s Patan district, when there was a knock at the door. A group of villagers stood outside, carefully on the other side of the threshold.

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Parts of India to experience another spell of heat wave this week; Read here

Heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over parts of Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Konkan, Saurashtra and Kutch, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, and Telangana. Read further on Dynamite News:

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