Yakshagana is a popular folk dance drama from Karnataka. It is a night long performance traditionally performed by males only, including the female roles and has live music including 3-4 instruments. Costumes and wooden jewellery is all designed by the artist themselves. We speak to Priyanka Mohan of Yakshadegula troupe that has been working on preserving the folk art form by not just performing but also innovating it for the current times. Follow Yakshadegulu at https://www.instagram.com/yakshadegula.bengaluru Follow Anuradha Goyal's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anuradhagoyal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ianuradhagoyal Twitter: https://x.com/anuradhagoyal Follow IndiTales's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inditales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndiTales/ Twitter: Twitter: https://x.com/IndiTales Blog - https://www.inditales.com Hindi Blog - https://www.inditales.com/hindi Personal website - http://www.anuradhagoyal.com Books link - https://www.anuradhagoyal.com/publications/ 🎧 Listen To #TheDetoursPodcast On Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inditales

Trees are a part of our living and urbanisation of India has happened at the cost of trees. Say Trees is a Bangalore based organization trying to bring back trees back in urban as well as rural spaces, rejuvinating lakes of Bangalore and planting lakhs of saplings. Follow Say Trees at https://in.linkedin.com/company/saytrees https://www.instagram.com/saytrees_ind https://www.facebook.com/SayTrees https://twitter.com/saytrees_ind https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdZrN4u_Iu4rHpnvxn-PJCA Follow Anuradha Goyal's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anuradhagoyal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ianuradhagoyal Twitter: https://x.com/anuradhagoyal Follow IndiTales's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inditales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndiTales/ Twitter: Twitter: https://x.com/IndiTales Blog - https://www.inditales.com Hindi Blog - https://www.inditales.com/hindi Personal website - http://www.anuradhagoyal.com Books link - https://www.anuradhagoyal.com/publications/ 🎧 Listen To #TheDetoursPodcast On Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inditales

Indian Games have a long history as they can be found in our epics like Mahabharata. Gaurav Tiwari, the founder of Sutradhar talks about the: Role of Games in our lives History of Games Future of physical games in the era of AI Follow Gaurav Websites - mysutradhar.com and playranbhoomi.com Youtube - Hindi - youtube.com/@mysutradhar Marathi - youtube.com/@sutradharmarathi English - youtube.com/@sutradharenglish Odia - youtube.com/@sutradharodia Kids - youtube.com/@sutradharkids Follow Anuradha Goyal's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anuradhagoyal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ianuradhagoyal Twitter: https://x.com/anuradhagoyal Follow IndiTales's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inditales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndiTales/ Twitter: Twitter: https://x.com/IndiTales Blog - https://www.inditales.com Hindi Blog - https://www.inditales.com/hindi Personal website - http://www.anuradhagoyal.com Books link - https://www.anuradhagoyal.com/publications/ 🎧 Listen To #TheDetoursPodcast On Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inditales

Hariparbat Parikrams is an ancient Parikrama of the hill that is believed to be the embodiment of Sharika Devi - the presising Devi of Kashmir. The city of Srinagar is named after her. Read More about ancient Kashmir - https://www.inditales.com/ancient-kashmir-detours-ashish-kaul/ Leave your questions in the comments. Follow Anuradha Goyal's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anuradhagoyal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ianuradhagoyal Twitter: https://x.com/anuradhagoyal Follow IndiTales's Social Media Handles:- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inditales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndiTales/ Twitter: Twitter: https://x.com/IndiTales Blog - https://www.inditales.com Hindi Blog - https://www.inditales.com/hindi Personal website - http://www.anuradhagoyal.com Books link - https://www.anuradhagoyal.com/publications/ 🎧 Listen To #TheDetoursPodcast On Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inditales

India is full of stepwells, but most of them are not doing the job they were built for. Many of them are stunningly beautiful but most are lying in absolute neglect. Kalpana Ramesh ji has restored many stepwells. In this podcast, she walks her through the process of stepwell restoration with a casestudy of Bansilal Stepwell in Hyderabad. An inspiring story. Read the details in Kalpana Ramesh's book - The Journey of Restoring Bansilalpet Stepwell - https://amzn.to/3NVdegr Read more about stepwellls in India: Rani Ki Vav in Patan - https://www.inditales.com/rani-ki-vav/

How To Teach Different skills using the Heritage Monuments with a case study of Modhera Sun Temple with actor turned educationist Dr Swaroop Sampat Rawal. Architecture of Sun Temple at Modhera - https://www.inditales.com/architecture-of-sun-temple-modhera/ Poem on Sun Temple Modhera - ⁠https://www.inditales.com/sun-temple-modhera/

Temples in Dikshitar Music with G Ravikiran - the founder of GuruGuha channel that is working towards reviving the poetry of music of Muthuswamy Dikshitar. We find description of temples of Tamil Nadu in the music of the master. Follow Guru Guha YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@UCgcgr0Ehog37e5rQw71r36Q Facebook - facebook.com/Guruguhaamrta

Learn all about Podcasting from the best knwon Indian podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia. He talks about his learnings from interviewing myriad guests for his podcasts to the technical details of podcasting.

Pre-historic to Modern Temple Trail of Bangalore with Arun Bharadwaj. Bangalore is known for its trees, parks, IT parks, ISRO, PSUs and lovely weather but not many of us know about the ancient and medieval temples that continue to live within the BBMP limits.

Chhathh Puja of Bihar is the oldest living Sun worship that is done twice in the year during Chaitra and Kartik months that lie at the junction of two seasonal transitions. Listen to all about Chhath Puja from someone who practices it.

What Are Sacred Sites? What Makes Them Sacred? Why do we need to go on a pilgrimage? A conversation with Martin Gray who has travelled to 160+ countries and documented sacred sites and has read more than 2000 books on the subject - Sacred.

Sabrimala Pilgrimage Guide telling you: Where is Sabrimala? When is the Yatra done? Who can do it? How is it done? What are the preparartions for the same? If you still have questions, tell us in the comments.

Sadhabas were the traveling traders who crossed the seas to do business across the world. Listen about what they traded in, when did they sail, their sailing boats and the incredible legacy of Kalinga.

Travel Writing is undergoing changes with the advent of technology. A peep into the history and future of Travel writing with author Haroon Khalid.

Shakti Worship in Kashi with Dr. Rana P B Singh Navaratri Navadurga Yatra in Kashi - https://www.inditales.com/navaratri-navadurga-yatra-varanasi/

Vari Pilgrimage to Pandharpur with Dr Varada Sambus for Detours with Anuradha Goyal. Buy Vari Pilgrimage by Dr Varada Sambus at https://amzn.to/3PjCUVl

Ayodhya is well known for its illustrious kings like Sri Ram, Dashrath, Harishchandra, Dilip, Aja, Bhagirath. Queens of Ayodhya have rarely been spoken about. At most, we know about Sita and her three mothers-in-law. So, we have Sh. Amarnath Dube ji, who is an Ayodhyawasi and a collector of world Ramayanas. He has translated the Philipines and Tibetan Ramayana in India. He talks about different illustrious queens of Ayodhya, including the one who ruled from this ancient city. 

Amritsar is a city that revolves around Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple. Gurmeet Rai takes us for a walk around Amritsar starting with its Puranic roots, the building of the Harmandir Sahib, and coming up of city around it, including its living quarters and its famous markets. 

Balram Yatra is a part of Indian Epic Mahabharata. When the elder brother of Sri Krishna decided not to take part in the Mahabharat war, he decided to go on a pilgrimage along the Saraswati river from Dwarka to Kurukshetra. It took him 42 days to do this Yatra along the Saraswati which had already begun to dry up by then. The yatra takes us through the scenic route along which the most ancient civilizations once flourished.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi is the founder of the Website AncientVoice which contains 23500 pages on Mahabharata, Ramayana, the four Vedas, and Vishnu Purana. It contains ancient India maps, analysis articles, lineage maps, the full text of English translation of these texts in Wikified form with 7000 plus nouns analyzed creating huge information networks of Indic texts. The author additionally hosts websites like Nalanda, Takshasila, and RecentVoice, focusing on Greek, Avestan, and Tamil literature. He was a former ISRO scientist (2001-2006) and an artist who loves to paint events from Mahabharata.

Spiti Valley is one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Barren mountains with their snow caps with rivers passing through them quietly, with lakes that look like jewels thrown around. Dheeraj Sharma of Devil On Wheels takes around this mystical magical land defined by Spiti Valley.

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