Behdienkhlam Festival: How Jowai’s Pnar Community Drives Away Disease 
Kandali Festival: Why Rung Women Uproot a 12-Year Flower 
Hilljatra Festival: The Masked Agricultural Festival of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand 
Raulane Festival: The Ancient Himalayan Festival of Kinnaur, History, Rituals & Meaning 
Can Traditional Festivals Become Zero-Waste Without Losing Their Cultural Meaning? 
Behdienkhlam Festival: How Jowai’s Pnar Community Drives Away Disease
Behdienkhlam means “to drive away the plague” in the Pnar language. The people who organise...
Kandali Festival: Why Rung Women Uproot a 12-Year Flower
Mahiman Singh Hyanki, 86, from Sirkha village, has now seen the Kandali Festival six times....
Hilljatra Festival: The Masked Agricultural Festival of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand
In the Sor Valley of Pithoragarh, a man puts on a mask taller than himself,...
Raulane Festival: The Ancient Himalayan Festival of Kinnaur, History, Rituals & Meaning
In November 2025, a single photograph did what centuries of quiet mountain ritual never tried...
Can Traditional Festivals Become Zero-Waste Without Losing Their Cultural Meaning?
For nineteen years, a residential mandal in Mumbai’s Vile Parle neighbourhood has built its own...
What Happens to Festival Plastic After the Celebration Ends?
By the time the last band finishes, a festival field looks like a plastic tide...
The Hidden Carbon Footprint of Festivals: Travel, Food, Energy and Waste
Ask someone what makes a festival bad for the climate and most people say the...
How Much Water Does a Large Festival Use? Inside the Festival Water Footprint
The village of Pilton in Somerset normally gets through about half a million litres of...
Festival Light Pollution: What Bright Night Events Mean for Birds, Insects and Wildlife
Every September 11, two beams of light rise four miles into the New York sky....
Festival Noise Pollution: How Loud Events Affect People, Pets and Wildlife
A firework display lasts twenty minutes. The birds it displaces don’t come back down for...