Elliot’s beach buzzes with activity courtesy the Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha 2020. The main crowd puller? The Siddi Dhamal dancers; a troupe with a story. How often do you see a crowd relishing every ...

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Though firmly rooted in Spain, flamenco has a migratory tradition, one that began hundreds of years ago in distant lands and continues its worldly wanderings to this day. It’s appropriate, then, that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In harmonious 3/3 time, the feet of the Siddi people bounce up and down with vigor, excitement and ...

Students from Siddi community to be trained on par with international standards Karnataka is now eyeing training sportspersons for the next Olympics. In an effort to identify the potential athletes, ...

For the Siddi community in Karnataka, which traces its roots to Africa, Wednesday was a day to rejoice when for the first time, someone among them made it to the Karnataka legislature. Courtesy the ...

Jayan Cherian’s Rhythm of Dammam has several firsts to its credit. It’s the first fictional feature to be set among the Indian Siddi community that traces its ancestry to Africa and the first in the ...

In what could snowball into a racial controversy, the state government has gone ahead and used the word ‘ Negroes ’ to describe the Siddi community in Karnataka which has African origins. This despite ...

An African-origin ethnic tribe of about 20,000 people has been living in near total obscurity in India for centuries. The past few months in India have been mired in controversy due to a string of ...

India’s President Smt Droupadi Murmu visited Gir National Park in Sasan, Gujarat, on October 10, 2025. The first presidential visit to Gir National Park was made by Dr Rajendra Prasad in the 1950s, ...