Families honor Surya Dev and Chhathi Maiya. This four-day festival brightens Kartika month. Bihar Jharkhand Uttar Pradesh celebrate with full hearts. Devotees offer prayers to setting and rising sun.

Chhath Puja, one of the most sacred Hindu festivals dedicated to Lord Surya (the Sun God), is celebrated with immense devotion across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and parts of Nepal. This festival ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

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Music contains so many multitudes that sweeping generalizations about it rarely ring true, but this one still does: There are few things more exciting than an excellent debut album. It’s a thrill to ...

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It’s brutal out there, and that’s why, more than ever, we needed the consoling and prodding pleasures of popular music to help everything make sense in here. [Stage direction: taps chest, knowingly.] ...