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A medley of stories – features, oddities and a mix of everything beyond the day’s headlines.
Photo: TGCWhere Five Centuries Live On
Discovering the Timeless Soul of Majuli On the world’s largest inhabited river island, history isn’t preserved behind museum walls, it is woven into everyday life. Imagine waking to the sound of temple bells instead of traffic, watching monks rehearse dance dramas first performed over 500 years ago, or meeting artisans who still craft bamboo…
Photo: TGCWhere faith meets the river: The enduring mystery of Rajrappa’s Chhinnamasta Temple
Barely 80 kilometres from Ranchi, where the Damodar and Bhairavi rivers converge amid rocky cliffs, stands one of eastern India’s most enigmatic places of worship. The Chhinnamasta Temple at Rajrappa is not simply a pilgrimage destination; it is a remarkable confluence of mythology, Tantra, landscape and living tradition. For centuries, devotees, scholars and travellers alike…
Photo: TGCAmrita & Sahir: Written in longing
The Love That Smouldered Between Poems BOX: Some love stories end at the altar. Theirs began with a cigarette. They never exchanged vows. They never built a home together. They were never photographed walking hand in hand through the streets of Lahore or Delhi. Yet, for decades, Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi continued…
Photo: TGCRanchi Club: A colonial landmark that became a city institution
Few buildings in Ranchi reflect the city’s colonial past as vividly as the Ranchi Club. Established in 1886, the institution has stood at the heart of the city for nearly a century and a half, witnessing Ranchi’s transformation from a quiet hill station of the Chotanagpur Plateau into the capital of Jharkhand. More than a…
Photo: TGCHoly twin shrines gear up for devotion as Shravani Mela begins today
The State Shravani Mela came alive with vibrant inaugural ceremonies at Dumma on the Jharkhand-Bihar border in Deoghar and at Basukinath Dham in Dumka, marking the start of a month-long pilgrimage that will see the twin shrines of Baba Baidyanath and Baba Basukinath transformed into a sea of saffron-clad devotion. The administration has prioritised technology-driven…
Photo: TGCBefore the malls, Ranchi had its own shopping icons
Long before glass-fronted malls and air-conditioned retail chains altered the way Ranchi shopped, the city had already developed its own commercial landmarks. Along Main Road, around the historic GEL Church Complex and later at Firayalal Chowk, shopping was not merely a transaction. It was part of the city’s social life. The GEL Church, whose construction…
Photo: TGCHEC Ranchi: From Soviet-Era Industrial Ambition to a New Test of Self-Reliance
There was a time when the future of Indian industry was being built in Ranchi. When the Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) was established in 1958, India was still a young republic attempting to build an industrial base capable of supporting its own economic ambitions. HEC was conceived as part of that larger project: to manufacture…
Photo: TGCKanke Dam: Where Ranchi’s water, memory and landscape meet
On the northern edge of Ranchi, where the city begins to give way to the contours of the Gonda Hills, Kanke Dam offers something increasingly rare in a growing Indian city: the illusion of space. The reservoir is more than a familiar landmark. For generations of Ranchi residents, it has been part of the city’s…
96% of Mobile Users Listen to Music—So Why Do Only 38% Pay for It?
New Delhi: India had approximately 14 million paid music subscriptions in 2025, and the subscriber base could grow to 28–30 million by 2028, a report said on Friday. The growth in the subscriber base is likely to be driven by product innovation, partnerships, and evolving consumer preferences, the report by EY and the Indian Music…
Photo: AI imageAntibiotic resistance emerging as major threat to surgical care: Experts
The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance is making even routine surgical procedures more challenging, with surgeons warning that the loss of effective antibiotics could undermine decades of progress in safe surgery and increase the risk of life-threatening post-operative infections. Surgeons say that while antibiotics remain critical in preventing surgical site infections, their indiscriminate use has…
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