How To Be Spiritual in Haridwar
Visiting Haridwar is like an insurance policy for the soul—a smart investment that will yield moksha on maturity
When Love Marriage Needs a Little Help
After decades of fixing arranged marriages for their children, Indian parents are taking on a new challenge: trying to orchestrate their kids’ love marriages.
Medical Misadventure in Savita Case
The jury in the inquest into a woman who died in hospital in Ireland four days after suffering a miscarriage has given a verdict of medical misadventure.
Mango Nation Nectar-sellers
Behind every sensuously shot advertisement for mangoes lies a story that’s, well, not as glamorous as the fruit.
The Pain When Children Fly the Nest
The parental emotion is as simple as a learning to count and as strange as discovering that the series of numbers, the counting, never ends
Two Promising Places to Live, 1,200 Light-years From Earth
Astronomers said that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life.
Is Dove Saying Real Beauty is Skin Deep
The Dove Real Beauty Sketch campaign has the tagline, “You are more beautiful than you think.” However, the ideas being sold by the ad aren’t particularly beautiful.
Jhola and a Joke
It is a myth that feminists don't laugh. And the truth is that laughter is the best way to diminish fear and fight tyranny.
Sunil Gavaskar, Not Sachin Tendulkar, in Dickie Bird's Test XI
Umpiring legend Harold 'Dickie' Bird is someone who believes respect cannot be bought, but earned.
Disaster Awaits Indian Carriers if Govt Gives in to Etihad’s Lobby Via Jet
Etihad is eyeing 24 percent stake in Jet and reports suggest it is eyeing traffic from India to help its global ambitions and scale through this deal.
Teenager Exposes India's One Month Wives' Sex Tourism
A 17-year-old girl has exposed the scale of Islamic sex tourism in India where Muslim men from the Middle East and Africa are buying 'one month wives' for sex.
Trailing Kebabs in Dust Bowls of Asian History
It reminded me of the toothless Nawab of Kakori for whom the Galouti kebabs were invented in India.
Indian Students' Safety in Australia Still a Concern
Indians see Australia as a good place to be educated, but there are lingering concerns regarding the issue of safety for Indian students
Spitting Behaviour to be Studied
A professor from Plymouth is to travel round Asia studying differing cultural attitudes towards spitting in public.
India to Have its Own GPS Soon
By launching the IRNSS, India will join China and Europe in the mission to create their own version of the American GPS.
H-1B Visas: Nasscom Says Proposed Curbs Discriminatory
Like we have free flow of goods either side, I think it is as important to have free flow of highly skilled people it is part of the business.
Google Doodles India's First Passenger Train Journey
Google on Tuesday is celebrating 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train journey with a doodle on India's home page.
Why Surat is India’s Most Interesting City
It was a city before Bombay and New Delhi and Madras and Calcutta and Bangalore existed. It wasn’t designed by outsiders and it had a urban culture developed by its citizens, much of which it retains today.
Gift Economy: Experiments in Radical Generosity
In a world where money is the primary means of transaction, a group of people in India are trying to instil and encourage peer-to-peer generosity by rubbing off price tags from products and services - and leaving it forconsumers to decide their worth.
Seeing the Art in What Goes Into Your Mouth
Food has been an art ever since gastronomes learnt to use spices to cook their meat and vegetables. Over the centuries, art has become integral to food production.
Why Spend $250,000 on a Gold Shirt
An Indian man has bought one of the world's most expensive shirts, made with more than 3kg of gold and worth $250,000. His is an extreme case of an Indian obsession with the precious metal.
Can Bengali Mishti Go Global?
If sweet shops are looking to export on a large scale, they are going to need to ramp up production. And for that, store owners are looking to use more machinery.
Indian Restaurants a Hit in Tajikistan
Typical Punjabi dishes like the 'Butter Chicken' and 'Daal Makhni' attract a large number of foodies, mostly the Tajik.
1984 Massacre of Sikhs: Why Memories Should Never Die
Many of the traumatised survivors have either died or fled, while many others seeking a closure to their pain are unable to give up and are fighting a never-ending legal battle.
Indian and Entitled: Our Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Culture
Everyone wants more and more. However in the new India, the markers of status have become far more slippery.
Thirsty India Looks to Murray-Darling Model
Australia's experience in managing the water of the Murray-Darling Basin is being used to help India address one of the world's most serious looming water crises.
McLeodganj's 152-yr-old Nostalgia Shop
For most Indians, colonial British India exists only in movies or Kipling's novels. But in a 152-year-old shop in this Dharamsala suburb the British Raj continues to live on.
To lean In or Not
Even after five decades of feminism and female participation in the productive economy, the problem of women falling off the organised workforce remains a global phenomenon
Africans Complain of Discrimination in Mumbai
Africans staying in and around India's commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), complain of indiscriminate racism and constant police harassment, reports the BBC's Zubair Ahmed.
What if You Die? Google Wants You to Bequeath Your Gmail or Kill It
Worried who will read some of your personal and saved emails and conversation after you are dead?
Olympics: India's Return Into IOC Fold Under Threat
A stand-off between the government and an 81-year-old archery administrator is threatening to pierce India's hopes of a swift return to the ranks of the International Olympic Committee.
India's Most Controversial Gurus
Ranging from the benign to the bogus, magical to the mafia, fakers to the fakirs, and spiritual to the sleazy, godmen of all kinds exist in India.
Baby Boom: Indian Women Giving Birth to U.S. Babies
A lot of businesses go to India for inexpensive labor and it turns out American couples are doing the same.
Mars Trip Possible With Rocket Powered by Nuclear Fusion
Astronauts could now be a step closer for a trip to Mars through a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion, the same energy that powers the sun and stars.
India's 5 Leading Ayurveda Destinations
From being the 'science of life', Ayurveda has become the 'slice of life' for many with the advent and positive growth of rejuvenation centres and Ayurvedic resorts in the country.
World Abolishing Death Penalty, But Executions on Rise in India
Fewer countries are carrying out executions than a decade ago, but India along with nations like Gambia, Pakistan and Japan bucked the trend to resume handing out death penalties.
When East Meets West, Parents and Grandparents Collide
Everything was a discussion, a debate, a clash of cultures in my biracial, bi-continent, bi-everything marriage.
Himalayas: Water towers of Asia
These peaks are not just a magnificent spectacle. They have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia and hold the gift of life for billions of people.
India's Parsis
Preserving their tradition is very important to the Parsis, especially because of their community's diminishing size. Today, there are only an estimated 140,000 Parsis remaining worldwide, most of them living in India.
Discovered: Sun's Magnetic Heartbeat
Scientists claim to have discovered a magnetic "solar heartbeat" in the Sun's deep interior, that generates energy which leads to solar flares and sunspots.
Caregiving From Another Continent
Technology has transformed how people can communicate over long distances and altered expectations of what people can do for far-flung relatives.
A Dating Website for Beard Lovers
A new dating site is helping beard-lovers find love by putting them in touch with furry fellas.
Russian Billionaire Plans to Make Humans Immortal by 2045
A Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make humans immortal by converting them into 'Terminator-style' cyborgs - a creature that's part human and part machine - within the next three decades.
612 Indians Have Cash Stashed in Tax Havens
What has been revealed is only a fraction of the over $32 billion believed to be parked in tax havens around the world.
Cashew Feni Still Legal Only in Goa
Only liquor made from cashew apples within Goa can be called 'feni', much like champagne, the sparkling wine made in the Champagne region of France.
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