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Culture & continuity

The trades, the languages, the ceremonies, the economies that persist — not despite change, but through it. This section launches in full on 1 June 2026. A selection of reports is available now.

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Photo · Konaseema district, Andhra Pradesh

Culture·Vanishing trades

The last toddy-tappers of Konaseema

Once 14,000 strong, the gowda community of the Godavari delta now counts fewer than 600 working tappers. The palms remain. The buyers do not.

Reported by Sridevi Mallepudi·Konaseema district, Andhra Pradesh

Photo · Bhoodan Pochampally, Telangana

Culture·Weaving

In Pochampally, a younger generation returns to the loom — on its own terms

They use Instagram. They refuse the middleman. They are bringing the ikat back, and they are pricing it like the work it is.

Reported by Kavya Nellore·Bhoodan Pochampally, Telangana

Coming 1 June

Folk economies

Fishing nets, bullock carts, hand-loomed cloth. The economics of what persists.

Language & memory

Dialects, scripts, oral histories. The archive that lives in people.

Craft & commerce

When tradition becomes a market — and what survives the transaction.

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