Hyderabadi ‘Handmade Sevaiyan’ Getting Stiff Competition With Machine Made Products
Siddharth Anand It still has a magic about it that no other festival special has managed to steal. Vermicelli, and…
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No Power, No Water And No Roads At Bhadradi ‘Guttikoya Adivasis’ In Telangana
Several hundred Guttikoya tribals in Telangana’s Bhadadri Kothagudem district, especially in the forests close to Bhadrachalam, have approached…
A Conman Who Fraudulently Married Several Gullible Women And Swindled Money Illegally
A 32-year-old Jawahar Shukra is in jail for harassing a woman from Andhra Pradesh, whom he met on…
‘Mango A Day, Keeps The Heat Away’
A season-specific fruit, mangoes underwrite a myriad of health benefits when dealing with the summer heat. In addition…
Inside The ‘Dangerous Business’ Of ‘Rent-a-Womb’ And ‘Baby Factory’ In India
Gestational dormitories. Routine C-sections. Quintuple embryo implants. Brave New World? Nope, surrogacy tourism. India legalized surrogacy in 2002…
Will ‘Congress-Free Telangana’ Seems To be A ‘Reality’ Soon?
In Telangana, the signs so far haven’t been good for the Congress. To the average Andhraite, the 2014…
Deep In The Desert – Telangana Gulf Migrant’s Story Of Despair
In pursuit of a better life, hundreds of workers from Telangana make their way to the Gulf, but…
Women ‘Migrants’ and ‘Social Remittances’ – The Case of ‘Barkas’ in Hyderabad
Ahssanuddin Haseeb An ethnographic study of the women migrants in Barkas, an old Arabian neighbourhood in Hyderabad, shows that women…
Hyderabad’s Popular ‘Ibrahim’s Ice-Cream Soda’ – The Fizzy Cool Drink Is All Time Favourite
In a quiet lane in Hyderabad’s Lakdi-ka-pul, Mohammad Idrees sits in front of his tiny stall, which to…
‘Barkas’ – The Hyderabad’s Arab Migrants Locality’s Organic Fruit Market Loses Charm
The organic fruit market at Barkas in Hyderabad, where various varieties of locally-grown fruits are auctioned, is beginning…