KOLKATA, India — When Sharmistha Chaudhuri decided ... "You have to be confident, you have to study hard," says Nandini, a Shubhamastu priestess who recently started using only one name to ...

After battling age-old traditions of Indian weddings, an Indologist and Priestess Nandini Bhowmik has significantly emerged as a woman whose modern cultural beliefs have triumphed over ...

And why not! She’s the country’s first Hindu priestess. Hailing from West Bengal, Nandini desires to make India more open-minded by discarding the dated ritual of ‘kanyadaan’ and other patriarchal ...

Priya, chairperson of the Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels in India, learnt hers from her late father, the patriarch of the group. At 22, struggling to cope with her new responsibilities at the ...

She was perhaps the first priestess to do so in the heartland state. HT Image The Nawada unit of the Arjak Sangh, a social organisation, stood by Kiran. The Arjak Sangh made news last year when it ...

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In India where a lot of ceramic work has echoes ... Her journey at the wheel began in the 1960s in Vadodara. A high priestess of the world of minerals and fire and clay, she looked around her ...

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