Rajasthan Kabir Yatra, India's longest travelling folk music festival, is underway from October 2-8. This 'pilgrimage' is co-hosted by Rajasthan Police under its Project Taana Baana. Poet saints of Rajasthan have helped the police to strengthen the warp and weft of communal amity. To know more about this initiative, Gaon Connection strikes up a conversation with Dr Amandeep Singh Kapoor, Director, Central Detective Training Institute, Jaipur, which is under the Bureau of Police Research & Development, Ministry of Home Affairs.

A government school teacher in a village in Bharatpur, Rajasthan composes poetry and songs in Mewati language to increase public awareness about ills in society. His aim is to promote harmony amongst the common folk through his melodies and verses.

दिल्ली जैसे महानगर में फुटपाथ पर किताबें बेचना कितना मुश्किल हो सकता है ये संजना ही समझा सकती हैं।

In many rural pockets of Madhya Pradesh, the days before Holi are filled with the beats of the nagadiya and the phag, songs that are special and considered auspicious to celebrate the advent of spring and the festival of colours. However, this tradition is fading.

India's longest travelling folk music festival features performers and singers from different communities who come together and celebrate the oral traditions of the Bhakti, Nirgun, and Sufi saints and poets who preached universal love. The Yatra will go on from October 2-8.

From the administrative view point, a tripartite division should have been more viable for three regions -- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh -- which are mutually exclusive in aspects of language, religion, geography and situation. The present division seems motivated by the fear of creating and managing a separate hostile province of Kashmir valley

Neem flowers are used in various food preparations. Roasted flowers crumbled on hot plain steamed rice, with a generous helping of ghee, make for a perfect summer lunch. These flowers can be dried, preserved and used throughout the year. Here’s how.

Like our childhood, basant seems to belong to a bygone era. Now in just a couple of days the mercury jumps many degrees and the harsh Indian summer is upon us. From rajai and no-fan nights, we go straight into air conditioned rooms. And, more worryingly, the rising heat and disappearing spring is a direct threat to our granaries.

Twenty five kilometres south east of Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh, and a few kilometres downstream of Mandideep is the ancient township of Bhojpur with its 1000-year-old 'mystery' and the world's oldest, still functioning dam.

भारत की सबसे लंबी यात्रा करने वाला लोक संगीत समारोह ‘राजस्थान कबीर यात्रा’ 2-8 अक्टूबर तक चलेगा। सांप्रदायिक सद्भाव और शांति को बढ़ावा देने वाली यह 'यात्रा' राजस्थान पुलिस के प्रोजेक्ट ताना बाना के अंतर्गत सह-मेजबानी के साथ की जा रही है। इस पहल के बारे में और ज्यादा जानने के लिए गाँव कनेक्शन ने गृह मंत्रालय के पुलिस अनुसंधान और विकास ब्यूरो और केंद्रीय गुप्तचर प्रशिक्षण संस्थान के निदेशक अमनदीप सिंह कपूर के साथ बातचीत की।