When Mumbai-based Harish Iyer's mother Padma placed a matrimonial advertisement in a Mumbai tabloid for her gay son, she never thought it would generate a debate across and outside the country....
It had been snowing heavily from the wee hours. It seemed like it would never end. The whole Everest Base Camp was clad in white. The mercury plummeted below zero degree Celsius. ...
Contrary to the age-old assumption that the Indus script is a language, a veteran science historian has claimed that it is numerical, as evident from numbers and symbols in the seals and artifacts of the Indus Valley Civilisation (3000-1900 BC)....
My story begins in Kashmir, India. Situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains, Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of India, borders China to the northeast, the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south, and Pakistan and the Pakistani-occupied territories of Kashmir to the west and northwest. The history of Kashmir prov...
For those who are not that savvy about South Indian men style, especially Mallus, I can unequivocally say the following about thorthu. It's a common weakness shown by men of Mallu origin to wear the homespun towel called thorthu....
J. Jayalalithaa, often described as the 'Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu', returned to power on Saturday - after a seven month break that ended when she was acquitted in a corruption case, bringing joy to her party cadres and an apparent relief to several sections of the people....
Measuring a government’s achievements in its first year has to be inherently speculative. But some things can be put down to Narendra Modi’s account with a degree of certainty. He has in his first year as prime minister, never worn a Muslim cap although it is difficult to identify a cap of that denominational ...
Known as “China's Jerusalem†for its prominent Christian population, Wenzhou city's chapter of the Communist Party of China (CCP), will expel any party member who practices religion, the official newspaper Global Times reported on Friday. ...
A 140-foot bullet-proof Cross is being built in Pakistan's Karachi city, the biggest in Asia, a media report said on Friday....
Looking back at the untimely death of a promising young man by his father...
