Culture

After 163 years, India bid farewell to a service which had fallen off the radar for most. With new technology – mobiles and emails – taking over the role of …

It’s a unique confluence of Shaivism and Buddhism, telescoping the centuries-old historical and cultural connect between India and Southeast Asia. A 1,100-year-old Shiva temple, Preah Vihier, perched atop a hillock …

A tradition-bound village institution in northern India, notorious for regressive honour killings, has done a sharp turnaround by joining the country’s battle against female infanticide. Haryana’s ‘khap panchayat’ is in …

Relief has been pouring into Uttarakhand ever since the floods ravaged the Himalayan state. Besides the armed forces and government, innumerable NGOs, charitable organisations and religious institutions have been working …

In an ironic twist, Britain, which colonised India for centuries, is now going to expose its school children to the history of India’s freedom struggle. If the new national curriculum …

As India has struggled to come to terms with the aftermath of the colossal floods in Uttarakhand, the many pilgrims stranded without water, food or electricity, are also facing a …

It’s a vision the world has for itself – to send each and every child to school by the year 2015. But it’s a vision that’s tough to gaze at, …

Let’s face it! We all have that little green monster inside that makes us want to one-up someone else. Jealousy is in-built. Everyone likes to trump someone sometimes. And standing …