Priests at a Varanasi temple do much to instigate soul-searching.

Helming a full-service central bank comes with its challenges where you have done some good and some bad by ignoring key issues.

“Hindu society may have maintained a distasteful practice but no one can credibly argue that it is intrinsic to the religion,” Tharoor writ...

Sharjah has gathered its past, seamlessly embedded immigrants into it, and that has made it the vibrant multi-cultural city that it is toda...

Mauritius, the sun-drenched island in the Indian Ocean may be better known as a honeymooners' paradise with its pristine beaches and sumptu...

Israel also offers surprisingly good wines. After all, the country’s wine history dates back to biblical times. Golan Heights offers the be...

Rejecting terrorism, Modi in his address had hailed Islam as a religion of peace, citing the Koran and also paying rich tributes to the ecl...

RBI chief designate Urjit Patel had written a stinging paper on former governor D Subbarao’s defense of RBI’s helplessness over inflation t...

Years of external domination and cultural intermingling have resulted in a diversity that has today become Seville’s imprimatur.

The original diet of the Emiratis was desert-sourced — camel’s milk, dates, fresh ocean produce. Easterners brought rice and spices to this...

Normally, Modi is quite forthcoming with comments on Twitter. During the elections, this was a refreshing change from the tight-lipped inac...

The majority is the bedrock of secularism and violating their notion of a fair deal only undermines the secular project and harms India’s m...

The 49-yr-old, a cricket and football fan from The Boston Consultancy Group, will have a two-year term at RBI in policymaking, succeeding S...