The four-day long Chhath Puja is marked by strict fasting as well as healthy feasting. Here are six easy to make sattvik traditional recipes for Chhath.

The four-day long Chhath Puja is marked by strict fasting as well as healthy feasting. Here are six easy to make sattvik traditional recipes for Chhath.

Be it Houston or Hazaribagh, the Chhath Puja celebrations have a comforting sameness to it with special rituals, foods and songs that worshippers bring to it with great devotion. Gaon Connection presents special food recipes associated with each day of the four-day long Chhath celebrations. Cook, share and savour them.

Be it Houston or Hazaribagh, the Chhath Puja celebrations have a comforting sameness to it with special rituals, foods and songs that worshippers bring to it with great devotion. Gaon Connection presents special food recipes associated with each day of the four-day long Chhath celebrations. Cook, share and savour them.

For folk singer Sharda Sinha, her Chhath arghya to the deity is in the offering of her songs. It is the fifth year of Chhath fasting for filmmaker Kamakhya Narayan Singh. Meanwhile, childhood memories of Chhath make Amrendra Sharma, an actor from Pashchim Champaran in Bihar, nostalgic.

For folk singer Sharda Sinha, her Chhath arghya to the deity is in the offering of her songs. It is the fifth year of Chhath fasting for filmmaker Kamakhya Narayan Singh. Meanwhile, childhood memories of Chhath make Amrendra Sharma, an actor from Pashchim Champaran in Bihar, nostalgic.

Eight years after Devashish Makhija's directorial debut Oonga hit the festival circuit, former child actor Raju Singh speaks of the angst of waiting in the wings, and why one should read Oonga, the book.

Eight years after Devashish Makhija's directorial debut Oonga hit the festival circuit, former child actor Raju Singh speaks of the angst of waiting in the wings, and why one should read Oonga, the book.

Eight years after Devashish Makhija's directorial debut Oonga hit the festival circuit, former child actor Raju Singh speaks of the angst of waiting in the wings, and why one should read Oonga, the book.

For Maithili New Year, Jur Sital, which falls today, April 14, people in the Mithila region give the kitchen much-needed rest, indulge in some kite-flying, play a version of Holi with silt from water bodies, and sprinkle water on each other to beat the summer heat.

For Maithili New Year, Jur Sital, which falls today, April 14, people in the Mithila region give the kitchen much-needed rest, indulge in some kite-flying, play a version of Holi with silt from water bodies, and sprinkle water on each other to beat the summer heat.

For Maithili New Year, Jur Sital, which falls today, April 14, people in the Mithila region give the kitchen much-needed rest, indulge in some kite-flying, play a version of Holi with silt from water bodies, and sprinkle water on each other to beat the summer heat.

Ever heard of a well getting married to a banyan tree? Or of how entire villages in Bihar and Jharkhand get together to organise this Kuan Vivah to get blessings from Nature and also clean up local water sources?

Ever heard of a well getting married to a banyan tree? Or of how entire villages in Bihar and Jharkhand get together to organise this Kuan Vivah to get blessings from Nature and also clean up local water sources?

Ever heard of a well getting married to a banyan tree? Or of how entire villages in Bihar and Jharkhand get together to organise this Kuan Vivah to get blessings from Nature and also clean up local water sources?