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How a 19-Year-Old Girl From Bengal Became the First Asian Woman to Conquer...
Behind many of the world's best adventures are women who broke barriers, broke records, or simply went above and beyond what was considered possible or even the norm for women at their time. Although...
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The Interstellar Journey of an Indian Raga That Has Been Playing for 39 Years...
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From annual K-pop contests to academies that teach Hanku Muyong, the Korean national dance, Chennai is no stranger to Korean culture. The bustling capital of Tamil Nadu is home to over 6,000 Korean...
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The Untold Story of C. B. Muthamma, India’s First Woman IFS Officer and...
Over the years, India has had several woman diplomats, ambassadors and high commissioners who have done stints in countries like the USA, China, Spain, Sri Lanka, Australia, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Qatar,...
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A Little Bit of Varanasi in England: Why This Tiny Oxfordshire Village Has a...
One wouldn't expect to find a quaint little lane named after Benaras at a distance of over 8,000 km from Varanasi in India. But then again, one wouldn't expect to find a well, funded by the Maharaja of...
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The Story of Jamsetji Tata’s Forgotten Farm and How It Revived the Mysore...
In 1868, a 29-year-old man from a small town in Gujarat started a trading firm in Bombay with ₹ 21,000. The man was Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata and the occasion marked the beginning of what would grow...
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TBI Food Secrets: If You Love Pani Puri, You Will Love the Interesting Story...
There is something comfortingly familiar about eating a humble pani puri - a crispy hollow ball made of semolina or wheat, filled with spicy potatoes and topped with tangy, spicy tamarind water made...
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Wonderfully Weird: 15 Unique Museums in India You Cannot Afford to Miss
When we think about museums, the first thing that comes to mind are images of stuffy galleries with staid security guards on hand to quiet the crowds. Not so at these decidedly quirky museums that...
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Rukmini Devi Arundale, the Legend Who Chose Dance Over Becoming the President...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2017, Google paid a tribute to 13 remarkable women across the world who broke new ground in their field of expertise. The search engine’s latest doodle is a...
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The Untold Story of the Kathiawadi Doctor Who Had a Profound Impact on the...
In the stirring story of India’s struggle for freedom, few events are as dramatic, as momentous and as inspiring as the Dandi March. On March 12,1930, Mahatma Gandhi and a small band of his supporters...
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Of Music, Mica and Mithai: The Fascinating Story of How Jhumri Telaiya Became...
What is the first thing that comes to mind when anybody mentions Jhumri Telaiya? Probably Vividh Bharati and the litany of song requests it received from this town. However, there is more to this town...
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Heard of Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus? Here’s the Story of India’s Earliest...
One day, some 74,000 years ago, in the lush Jurreru valley of south India, dawn never came. Clouds of greyish dust blocked out the sunlight, blanketing the ground and shrouding trees, turning them to...
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We Indians Love Our Dal. But Do You Know the Fascinating History of Our...
If there is one dish with which Indian cuisine, and in that sense, most Indians, share an umbilical-like connect, it has to be the humble dal. As the Oxford Companion to Food points out, technically...
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The Little-Known Story of the First Air India Flight in 1932, and the...
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Years Ago, a Calcutta-Born Photographer Captured Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord...
“Oh, Mystery of Beauty! Who can tell Thy mighty influence, who can best descry How secret, subtle and swift is the spell Wherein the music of thy voice doth lie?” The composer of the above verse, Julia...
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Irrfan Khan’s ‘Tokyo Trial’ Tells the Intriguing Story of a Forgotten Indian...
Among the many monuments at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial to Japan’s war dead, there stands a simple monument dedicated to a forgotten Indian judge, Judge Radhabinod Pal. Pal, played by Irrfan...
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A Freedom Fighter With a Feminist Soul, This Woman’s Contributions to Modern...
In 1986, when renowned Indian novelist Raja Rao wrote Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s memoirs, Inner Recesses Outer Spaces, he described her as “perhaps the most august woman on the Indian scene today....
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Real-Life Lagaan: India’s First International Cricket Match Left England...
It is that time of the year when the bellow of the bugle merges with the thwack of the bat as it hits the ball and the roar of fans intensifies in packed cricket stadiums across India. As the 10th...
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A Jewish Bakery Has Been Making Kolkata’s Favourite Cakes for Over 100 Years!
The Bengali obsession with mishti, meaning sweets, is well-known. In fact, a Bengali without a sweet tooth is greeted by the community with disbelief and sometimes even horror. In Bengal, desserts are...
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