CULTURAL

The video that is now doing the rounds amongst the Indian American community in USA is going viral and people are…

‘Everyone should sit by a stream and listen’  Maurice Sendak’s utterly simple yet poignant words from one of my…

The City Council of Naperville voted unanimously 9-0 on Tuesday night to approve the petition for a new mosque…

Growing up in Australia, Brett Lee spent most of his weekends watching cricket with his parents in stadiums. At age…

A walk through the gridded town of Puducherry is nothing short of a simulation of walking through a box of crayons.…

Mayor Lightfoot also declared October 2021, Mahatma Gandhi month in the City of Chicago, a first-of-its-kind honor…

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These days, Diwali gifts can either be traditionally associated with the holiday, or be more modern and creative.…

  “It is the pain and not the pleasure of travel that produces great travel literature.” —S. K. Pottekkatt  …

“I’ve always wanted to run a place that could bring travellers together,” Rigzin Namgyal, the co-founder of Ladakh…

Guffawing, even as he stuffs spicy onion tomato chutney in a chunk of bajre ki roti, my host is regaling us with…

As I touch down at the Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, I feel a touch of trepidation. Back home in Kolkata, the…

The twilight sky’s shapeshifting colours could fill a paint wheel as my friend and I near our hilltop sojourn for…

For reasons I’m yet to grasp, the bakery, together with the twin mischiefs of the Irani café and the Parsi…

Anyone with a love of the great outdoors will attest to harbouring one travel dream above many—to wake up in their…

Manek did extensive research to write the book. Manek is also a well-known playwright and has penned a play on the…

Sleeping amidst these bushes is the Topli Karvi, or Strobilanthes callosa, which blooms only once in seven years.…

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” Ben Hogan For…

There are myriad dishes that do not enjoy their moment in the sun, but are just as worthy as their mainstream…

“Hills and jungles in Mumbai? That’s not possible!” exclaimed a friend’s father to her when she disclosed her plans…

Chennai’s architectural tapestry has a complex and eclectic past. The city’s many landmarks are the result of a…

HI INDIA NEWS DESK CHICAGO, IL - The government of India has recently relaxed the requirements for re-issue of OCI…