When it comes to big-ticket Indian weddings, Sabyasachi Mukherjee is the designer du jour. From film stars Anushka Shankar to Deepika Padukone to Priyanka Chopra Jonas,…
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The Indian festival of Navarati that is being celebrated all over India at the moment, is observed in different ways across the country. Dedicated to the…
Durga Puja is eastern India’s biggest festival that is held with much pomp in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, and Odisha every year. This…
Colombo — Sri Lanka has been given many names — the Dutch called it Taprobane, the Portuguese named it Serendip and for the British, it was…
In October 2016, a tea seller (chaiwalla) caught the fancy of South Asian social media for his remarkable looks. And it was not Indian Prime Minister…
“Bad Boy Billionaires,” a recent Netflix web-series on one of the biggest corporate scams in India, released on Oct. 5. The documentary has shifted the spotlight on…
Poornima Seetharaman has become the first Indian game developer to be inducted into the Women in Games Hall of Fame. The awards were opened for global entries for the…
The smelly, acrid flavour in some Indian dishes is due to a unique spice — Asafetida — that is consumed aplenty in the country, but is not…
RICHMOND, Virginia—Research examining the link between hot weather and construction methods is allowing city officials to right decades-old wrongs resulting from discriminatory banking practices. A four-year…
Going once, going twice—the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences are two Stanford economists whose work lets the world make mobile phone calls,…