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Every day during Ramzan, Hyderabad-based Pista House sells hundreds of kilos of haleem and exports this 16th-century delicacy across continents

Despite higher literacy levels, young women in Tamil Nadu are no safer than their sisters in north India from the brutal threat of honour killings

Doing the once unthinkable, a new channel beams Pakistani serials directly to Indian homes and finds an enthusiastic following for its slick productions

In a dystopian future dreamt up by science fiction, a food writer would be woefully short of employment. And foodies short of joy, macaroons and mint juleps

The mile-long stretch from Minara Masjid to Nagpada in Mumbai is a complex maze of gastronomic delights, best sampled in the holy month of Ramzan

The god of cinema no longer needs the poor. So the poor have been robbed of cinema, and of video theatres with ₹10 tickets

We dig for the truth. So you don't have to.

The real contest in football is outside the penalty box, not inside. The goals are happenstance

The lack of any budget sops adds to rural India’s woes

>When Hyderabad’s many mansions played host to weddings and dreams (In PDF)

The myth of the Yeti hasn’t given up its ghost yet. Researchers have found no evidence to prove the abominable snowman doesn’t exist

Meet the colourful avian that lives in some of the most complex societies

Milan is much like the gorgeous supermodels flocking it, but this Mecca of high fashion stylishly coexists with ancient history and a wealth of baroque architecture

Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of pluck to turn the familiar into ‘exotic’

A night with the Great Orange Cat and the Destroyer of Badminton Nets

Who knew that one day maps would become obsolete, unwanted, unloved, languishing under piles of telephone books, VCRs and reams of writing paper?

The master of writing a series, JK Rowling keeps readers gladly guessing in the second outing for her unlikely detective, Strike

With the exception of actual coitus and its accompanying practices, cutaneous tactile stimulation by a massage is perhaps the most gratifying dorsal or ventral pleasure

A book that shows us how the beautiful game transcends culture and politics, and imprints upon the world its own moral order

While the government is busy bringing back Indian citizens from Iraq, volunteers of Anjuman-e-Haidari are hoping to head in the opposite direction

Actor, director, author, film school founder and now talk-show host. Anupam Kher firmly declines the veteran tag and asserts his real competition are the younger stars

1 Petrichor, a word first coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers, is a phenomenon most of us strongly associate with childhood and growing up.