Two Kashmir giants, and the traveller James Ricalton. Halftone after a photograph, 1903.

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Fans celebrate the victory of Argentina against France in a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 final match, at the University of Dhaka area, December 2022 (Jubair Ahmed Arnob/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Kashmir as captured by James Burke for LIFE magazine (1960)

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For centuries, we’ve sold Indian travel destinations by comparing them to Europe. Why can’t we stop?

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We spoke to the ex-JPMorgan banker who claimed a female executive abused him — and found an even messier truth.

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Margot Robbie at the "Wuthering Heights" world premiere on January 28, 2026 in Los Angeles, California (Araya Doheny Photography/Variety via Getty Images)

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Hollywood and Western luxury houses keep exploiting Indian royal artefacts to sell jewels on the red carpet. When will it stop?

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Shah Rukh Khan attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025 (Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

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Viral clips, cropped videos, and eerily similar talking points. Fans suspect it isn’t a coincidence.

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Tomas Bata came to “shoe” the natives. They ended up building his empire — and saving his company.

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People stand around the debris of an airplane after it crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June 12, 2025 (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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Tata is pouring billions into the airline. But a deadly crash — and years of passenger complaints — continue to cloud its comeback.

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 The $62 billion global fragrance industry runs on synthetics. But one country’s ancient, natural traditions are gaining ground.

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Rippling co-founder Prasanna Sankar is in a viral fight with his ex-wife over money, custody, and reputation — and the internet is choosing sides.

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Tata Group chief Ratan Tata at the launch of Jaguar, Land Rover brands in Mumbai on June 28, 2009 (Bhaskar Paul/The The India Today Group via Getty Images)


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The British automaker’s most shocking moment wasn’t a viral 2024 ad. It was when one Indian man dared to buy it.

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Police dismissed the OpenAI whistleblower’s death as a suicide. His parents say there’s more going on.

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What does the investor, lawyer, and chartered accountant want the world to know? “Tell them I’m defying gravity.”

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Peter Parker isn’t the richest, strongest, or smartest. Yet, the subcontinent and diaspora remain obsessed with the nerdy teen from Queens.

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Ian McConnell shared how he created an absurd 49-second song that’s made fans out of SZA, Lizzo, and Bengalis everywhere.

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Mysore’s rockets did more than terrify the British. They may have helped America win its independence.

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The Cannes-winning Nepali film about a Kinnar matriarch in search of her missing daughter asks us why we often treat the sacred as outcasts.

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Researchers analyzed 1.38 trillion Facebook friendship ties. They found one of the world’s starkest gender divides.

Can Men and Women Be Friends in South Asia?

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He traveled to India to ask for her hand. Two weddings later, their families found home in each other.

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Vedang Raina and Sharvari in 'Main Vaapas Aaunga' (2026)

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Despite what Hollywood might have you believe, the cougar is often treated like a witch in South Asian culture.

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Zohran Mamdani at Pride 2025 (Kara McCurdy, via Zohran Mamdani Instagram)

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A news outlet called Zohran Mamdani and Sadiq Khan “fake” Muslims for celebrating Pride Month. Queer Muslims would like a word.

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Madhuri Dixit in 'Maa Behen' (2026) (Netflix)

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How a puckered cotton fabric from India became a symbol of summer in the American South.

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Ranveer Singh attends the trailer launch of film 'Dhurandhar' on November 18, 2025 in Mumbai, India (Prodip Guha/Getty Images)

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The blacklisting saga reveals something bigger about a new Bollywood hierarchy.

The Ranveer Singh Ban is About More Than One Star

Bangladeshi people participate in a rally to celebrate the first day of the Bengali New Year or Pohela Boishakh in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 14, 2015 (Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)


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British Guiana Premier Cheddi Jagan and U.S. President John F. Kennedy on October 25, 1961 in the Oval Office (Abbie Rowe, White House Photographs / John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)

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Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as NYC's 112th mayor by NY Attorney General Letitia James, alongside his wife Rama Duwaji, in the former City Hall subway station on January 1, 2026 (Amir Hamja/Getty Images)

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Indian food at several farmers markets including the Penn Street Farmers Market including these mango lassi yogurt drinks (Harold Hoch/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)


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The Biggest South Asian Moments of 2025

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Shahbaz Khan shows pictures of his uncle Inayat Khan (left), who was also separated from the family at the time of Partition and died in India a few years ago, and his late father Sharif Khan (Murtaza Ali/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

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Members of Nepal's LGBT community take part in a gay pride parade in Kathmandu on August 27, 2018 (Gopen RAI / AFP via Getty Images)

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Hanumankind performs at the Mojave Tent at Coachella on April 12, 2025 in Indio, California (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella)


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Simone Ashley at 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' premiere (Disney)

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From ‘F1’ to ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ the industry keeps casting the star without tapping into her full talents.

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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ isn’t about fashion — it’s about what it takes to keep art alive.

Miranda Priestly Was Right All Along

Mona Sing in 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood' (2025) (Netflix)

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In an industry that typecasts aging women, one actor keeps stealing the show.

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Indians are rediscovering a 2009 Brazilian telenovela about them — and loving it. Why does it still hit across borders?

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Fawad Khan, Shakun Batra, and Sidharth Malhotra on the set of 'Kapoor & Sons' (2016)

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No star wanted to play a gay man. Studios didn’t want a broken family. In an exclusive, Shakun Batra tells us how he pulled off the 2016 film.