If there is one thing that dancer Khalil Al Ashar finds particularly challenging, its being ‘exoticised’. But as the world’s only professional Arab performer of the ancient classical form called…

They may look like any other group of young men chilling out on a river bank. But these young men in a huddle are scripting the revival of rap music in Indian-administered Kashmir. The narrow park…

India’s history contains several examples of women rising in unison not just to advocate for gender issues but also to spearhead some of the most significant socioeconomic movements within the…

The most striking geopolitical feature of the past four years has not been bipolarity or multipolarity—or even great-power conflict. It has been the spectacle of major economies pursuing self…

On Thursday evening last week, a Sikh prayer house (called gurudwara) in the New Delhi suburb of Indirapuram announced that it would provide free oxygen to Covid-19 patients until they could be…

As the tsunami of Covid-19 cases hit the second most populous country in the world, an unprecedented situation is unfolding for the current generation of Indians who have not witnessed chaos at this…

Crematoriums in India are melting under the pressure of so many dead bodies, hospitals have run out of oxygen, and people have taken to social media to plead for help. India is undergoing a dystopian…

On October 12, 2020, the electricity went out in India’s biggest city. Mumbai faced its worst power cut in decades, with businesses crippled, the stock market shut down, thousands of commuters…

In the green, undulating hills of eastern India that supply the world with Darjeeling tea, revolution is brewing as a new generation dreams of life beyond the confines and hardship of plantation work…

India and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed cordial relations, primarily driven by India’s energy security requirements. But the bilateral partnership has seen important shifts in recent years…