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Jaipur Man on run after killing wife, 3 daughters

Jaipur, Sept. 12 -- A 43-year-old man allegedly killed his wife and three daughters by striking them on the head with a stone at their home in Rajasthan's Jaipur before fleeing on Friday morning, poli... Read More


Women in love and out of it

India, Sept. 12 -- Imagine Shashi from English Vinglish being confident right from the beginning of the film, and responding to her husband's condescension. Imagine her life if she had forced change i... Read More


Yield to the heavens

India, Sept. 12 -- The next time you pick up a menu, look for a secret hiding in plain sight. Seasonal food used to mean a chalkboard of mango specials in May. But as harvests get less reliable in the... Read More


word on the street

India, Sept. 12 -- Deities on compound walls, political graffiti on flyovers, film posters layered across shop shutters and processions with elaborately decorated tableaux, create a visually saturated... Read More


peering into the soul of a culture

India, Sept. 12 -- Ranbir Sidhu's searing new work opens with the death of his father and loops back nine months, to the loss of his mother, "the gestation period for a human embryo". Wanting to under... Read More


Monster making and control

India, Sept. 12 -- Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. In Humans: A Monstrous History, award-winning science historian Surekha Davies reveals how people have defined the hu... Read More


'She was a woman almost without fear'

India, Sept. 12 -- 1Why has Begam Hazrat Mahal remained such a shadowy figure, despite her courageous resistance to British forces? One reason is that for years after the Uprising, its history was tol... Read More


Tech it to the next level

India, Sept. 12 -- This might have been the strangest product showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this year. It's a $10 lollipop that uses bone conduction to deliver vibrations to... Read More


Of original settlers and colonial playbooks

India, Sept. 12 -- Umar Khalid's Fractured Communities: Adivasi Histories and the Politics of Power traces the political history, from the colonial to the post-colonial period, of tribal people in the... Read More


Sealed, but with a kiss

India, Sept. 12 -- Last month, AB matched with a woman on a dating app. Both felt the pull of attraction. But instead of setting up an offline date, or sharing any personal information, they decided t... Read More