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The passionate outburst of rain showers that take place in the middle of the year has been extensively chronicled by foreign writers in India, accompanying expressions ranging from horror, awe and alarm to amusement and

If one were to trace Yoga’s journey in the West, we would have to start from September 11, 1893, when Swami Vivekananda made his famous speech at Chicago in the Parliament of religions. His powerful

Hamza’s radical Islamic views soon made the Finsbury mosque a centre with strong links to extremism. From inside the premises of the mosque, Hamza preached a violent theology and attracted disciples both from within and

The history of Darjeeling, the Gorkhaland Movement and the famous tea it produces is intermingled and to understand that one needs to travel three centuries back, when neither the borders were formed nor the nation-state.

The families of the Uphaar tragedy victims meet every year on June 13 to commemorate the gruesome deaths of their family members and ponder over whether enough has been done to provide justice to the

The special position of the cow in Meo life is manifested in many ways -- such as the fact that married Meo women make the sacred batevra (stacks of cow dung cakes), and the community

When the Congress was formed in 1885, its immediate motive was not independence. Rather its intent was to form a political arm that would mediate between the British authorities and the demands of the Indians.

Gorkhaland consists of Nepali-speaking people of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kurseong and other hilly districts. The people belonging to these areas hardly have any connection with the Bengali community and are different in ethnicity, culture and language.

Organised by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), the farmers protests in Karnataka in the early 1980s focused on economic issues facing farmers.

Iran’s position in world politics has largely been shaped by the fact that it is the country where political Islam asserted itself for the first time.

A flip side to developing a barrier against Shia revolutionary forces in the GCC countries was that it created an open ground for Sunni forces of Islamic fundamentalism to progress easily, such that it started

Condemning the recent announcement made by the Centre, Netaji’s grand nephew and Bengal BJP’s vice president Chandra Bose said he would take up the matter with the PM and said the family would take out

Yogi Adityanath's visit to Ayodhya: The Supreme Court in 2013 directed status quo on the contested land. In the order, Justice Aftab Alam had reiterated the 2011 order of the apex court calling for status

Frequently compared to former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Noriega too went from being accomplice to enemy of the United States.

The carcass found in Indonesia is believed to be particularly akin to the giant squid or the Kraken.

PM Narendra Modi addressed a gathering of 'Indian Tamils' in Dickoya in Sri Lanka. Who are 'Indian Tamils' and what is their connection with India and Sri Lanka respectively?

The most popular view among scholars is the fact that Buddhism was seen as the most modern and rational religion by Ambedkar.

The book dwells at length on the matrimonial alliance between Akbar and the Portuguese Maria Mascarenhas, a union which he maintains is conveniently missing from Mughal, Portuguese and English sources.

The first visit of the royal couple to India happened in 1961 and the grandiose preparation for their arrival was a matter that was covered widely by international media.

How the Indian Press tried to fight severe censorship imposed by the British Government in pre-independent India, starting from the 1850s.

For Ambedkar, the route to a modern and just labour structure in India was simple- the destruction of the caste system, which he believed was rooted in the basic tenets of Hinduism.

Unlike most British battles in the region, the one at Haifa was fought by cavalry regiments of the Indian Maharajas and not the British army.

French secularism roughly it translates as the separation of religious affairs from governmental activities.

Within the Babri Masjid compound, there once existed a mosque for Muslims, as well as a shrine for Hindus to pray. A railing functioned as a barricade between the two prayer spaces.

The major political parties in Tamil Nadu originated from Periyar’s philosophy and the current state of politics in the state is a product of a long history of splits and re-splits of one broad political