The radio is a communication method that has united people since its creation. Its invention sparked a revolution, as people were finally able to communicate easily…
Year: 2021
Marbles have a Stone Age predecessor: clay balls. As a game, they have been around for a long time. Egyptians and Romans bequeathed marbles to the…
SRINAGAR — Ishrat Akhter, a 24-year-old from Kashmir’s Baramullah district is the state’s first international wheelchair basketball player. The athlete who represented India at the Asia-Oceania…
KOLKATA — Lavli Begum Sheikh has been stitching kanthas—home-made quilts made from worn out saris—in rural Bengal since the age of 10. Taught by her mother…
New Delhi — Cows are a sensitive topic in India. The silent, domesticated, yet highly politicized bovines are not merely reared but highly revered in the country;…
GILGIT-BALTISTAN — An American hunter has created a record by hunting Markhor, Pakistan’s national animal, with an arrow. Joseph Bradford paid $80,000 to hunt down the…
At home or in the theater, movie watching shares one tradition: eating popcorn. The second a person enters a movie theater, their senses are overwhelmed by…
PepsiCo has been seeking a creative way to prevent fruit juice spoilage, due to a bacterium called Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris (ACB). In the United States, ACB causes…
Latin American nightlife has enough variety to satisfy anyone’s taste. Commonly known as “antros,” discotheques and nightclubs are places where people socialize, dance, consume alcoholic beverages…
Washington is braced for more unrest. A wide perimeter of streets around the White House are locked down in Washington, D.C., as up to 20,000 National Guard…