A primary school teacher in Jaunpur believes movie-making can bring teachers, students and their parents closer. Along with primary teachers from other schools, and some students and parents, he made a film called Sir Ji that already has 100k views.

The headmaster of a primary school at Mangalpurva village in Sitapur, UP, has found a novel way to increase enrolment and attendance at his school. And it is a screening success.

Till she was cast in the lead role of a film on child marriage, 14-year-old Neelam from Jamiyatpur village in Uttar Pradesh was quite resigned to being married off by her parents. But acting in the movie gave her the courage to speak up and her wedding was called off.

Tribal healing practices, cuisine, handicrafts, music, art, all find a place at the annual Samvaad conclave along with workshops on filmmaking, and skill development programmes. More than 150 tribes have assembled at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.

When Freddie Mercury sang “…everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio,” he was speaking for all of us in the 1960s and the 70s.

Coming to school is a treat for the students of the government primary school in Bhavani Dinpur village in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh as their teacher packs in a lot of music and dance, even as he teaches them.

Women in rural India are driving up internet usage as they use their smartphones for work, entertainment, and information. Gaon Connection tries to find out what do the rural women in Uttar Pradesh exhaust their internet data packs for.

After Independence, akhadas (wrestling hubs) have constantly suffered the apathy of governments. As a result, most of the akhadas teaching native art of wrestling in the country are struggling for survival

In the old part of Lucknow, India's historical hub, you will find the fading profession of pulling horse carriages – a nawabi trend that is now finding very few takers