Sometime last year, when Ayodhya was being decked out for the Ram temple inauguration, almost 900 km away in Odisha’s remote Katapali village in Bargah district, Ishwar Meher worked on a sari depicting Ram Setu. A 2015 National Award-winning master craftsperson, Mr. Ishwar Meher worked with handwoven cotton yarn for five months, using natural dyes extracted from flowers, jaggery, gram …
On Wednesday, August 30, a case of a gruesome murder came to light from India’s financial capital. Ishwar was not related to Shafiq’s wife and father-in-law by blood even though Shafiq’s wife considered him her brother. As per reports, Ishwar’s dead body was chopped into five pieces and later hidden in the kitchen. The victim’s body was recovered from Shafiq’s …
One and half months after he left home, albeit illegally, in hopes of a better future, the 33-year-old son of a farmer from Kaithal’s Mataur village lost his life before he could enter the United States. As per the family members the deceased, identified as Malkeet Singh, was killed in Guatemala and they had received a video confirming his death. …
