At the start of 2022, a picture of a girl allegedly drinking beer at the Assi Ghat in Varanasi became a talking point on social media. Apart from the chatter on social media,...

Nepal is a changed country, it is no longer the same Himalayan nation that welcomed Chinese investment with a ruling party getting progressively closer to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi used...

‘Supercop Udupi Sigham’. He is a legend in Karnataka. He is Annamalai Kuppusamy. The man managed to get into an IIM, turned down placement and turned to civil services. He took a tough...

MF Husain was always at the centre of controversy. Well, it was his paintings that made him the centre of a long controversy. It all started with the depiction of a bare-bodied woman,...

Saket Gokhale is in the news. No, not because of his PIL and RTI activism, but because a like-minded Twitter user, Hussain Haidry claimed, “Saket Gokhale has the audacity to ask for accountability every...

As the world enters into 2022 from a turbulent 2021, there are a number of annual rituals that we are going through like a ton of New Year resolutions that will end up...

Do you know what sets Prime Minister Modi apart from previous Prime Ministers? He is a true democrat, or you may say a Statesman like his predecessors, but when the opposition criticises him...

China is acting like a sore loser and Elon Musk has come to understand that hobnobbing with China was the biggest mistake of his life.  China and Elon Musk on ‘collision course' Beijing...

The population in China is decreasing rapidly. In April, FT reported that China’s population was set to record the first contraction in five decades. The crisis could, however, run deeper. Population getting reduced...

While the country is experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases and a night curfew has been imposed in the National Capital, resident doctors are out protesting for their rights in Delhi. The situation...

You know things have changed when a country cannot identify its original name. The Philippines got its name in 1544, after a Spanish explorer, Ruy López de Villalobos, named the archipelago after the prince of...

With people in the country becoming financially capable to boost tourism, the tourists are increasingly looking for ‘new’ sites to visit. Tourists often end up searching for amazing destinations and what better destination...