Tucked away in Abheypur Village on Sohna Road, just ahead of Gurgaon, we spot a 70-year-old lady - wrinkled in skin, but not in spirit - sitting with a traditional 'charkha' to create indigo thread. She's working to create handloom fabric for casual shirts and sleeveless bandhgala Nehru jackets to be sold to urban youth....
Unlike girls of her age who dream of becoming doctors or engineers, she wanted to be something different. Many laughed at her dream, but today she is one among the few Muslim women in India to hold a commercial pilot's licence....
It was November 2001. I had been in Buenos Aires for five days, enjoying everything I saw around. I was surprised to see that, in spite of the economic woes the country as a whole had been experiencing, the capital city functioned fairly efficiently and its reputation as “The Paris of South America†remaine...
Pakistan had about 120 atomic weapons, 10 more than India, in its nuclear arsenal last year, according to a new interactive infographic unveiled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists....
Path-breaking research has revealed that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders - including Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan - who lived up to 4,000 years ago....
The frequent arrival of western disturbances (wind storms) in India's northwestern region in this month has once again revived the cold in the hills of Himachal Pradesh, with most of the areas experiencing moderate to heavy rainfall, a Met official said here Monday....
He staked his reputation by declaring Narendra Modi as the next prime minister, despite being highly critical of the man. At that time, every journalist worth his salt argued passionately that it would never happen, given the country’s complexity, size and identity politics....
A pair of broken and blood-stained glasses tucked away inside a museum in West Bengal serves as a poignant reminder to the horrors of war and helped frame the incredible story of Jogendra Nath Sen, the only non-white who fought in the 15th West Yorkshire Regiment and the first known Bengali to be killed in World War ...
For six years, Anna Marie Lope lived in constant fear and depression. Exhausted by continuous emotional, physical and sexual abuse, she twice attempted suicide, only to enrage her husband who would then doubly punish her for finding different ways to "escape" their marriage....
From managing their family and children, fulfilling their 'duties' as a daughter, wife, daughter-in-law and more, to also setting up and running their own business - women across India are fighting stereotypes and challenging themselves to create their own individuality in a patriarchal society....
