Applying a fresh coat of mud on the walls every year is mostly done by women in a Santal family

Nation

In Birbhum, forests bloom on Santal walls

The 'wedding' of same-sex couple Riya Sardar and Rakhi Naskar

Art and Culture

West Bengal: Two women break taboo to marry in temple, village rallies round

Representative image of Humayun's Tomb

Art and Culture

Delhi’s ‘heritage for hire’ plan: Ancient monuments as wedding venues

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

POLITICS

Ramesh invokes historians to reaffirm Vande Mataram’s legacy, debunks ‘distorted’ claims

Sulakshana Pandit (1954-2025)

Obituary

Sulakshana Pandit: The velvet voice who sang her way into eternity

Film crew on location in Pahalgam

Entertainment

Film shooting resumes in Kashmir six months after Pahalgam terror attack

Artists paint a mural in tribute to late singer Zubeen Garg in Guwahati

Nation

Himanta Biswa Sarma declares Zubeen was 'murdered', though probe still on

A Gemini-generated image of Asha Bhosle

Opinion

The right to stay real

Film releases on 91 screens in Northeast and 90 across India — a scale never seen for an Assamese film

Entertainment

Cinematic farewell to Zubeen Garg as his last film hits theatres

Soyinka (seated, C) is the first African to win a Nobel for literature

World

Why did US ban Nobel icon, global dissenter, Trump critic Wole Soyinka?

Piyush Pandey specialised in creating the perfect storm with his ads, as advertised in ‘Pandeymonium’

Opinion

‘Abki baar Modi sarkar’ man knew how to exploit middle-class Indian psyche

Chhath celebration in Delhi, 26 Oct 2025 (Photos: Vipin/National Herald)photo story

Culture

In photos: The spirit of Chhath — family, faith and the flowing river

Chandrakhani Pass — gateway to reclusive Malana, increasingly encroached upon by 21st-century India

Travel

A trek to the world’s best hash-growing grounds in the Himalayas, in Himachal