Culture

Bollywood built its empire on opening weekends; Netflix builds on subscriptions and algorithms. Talent, money, audience are moving — theaters now the exception.

Indian films dominate screens from Dhaka to Kathmandu — by scale and storytelling, not force. How Bollywood won the region, and the cost to local cinema.

Ayurveda is going global — ashwagandha in every supplement aisle. What's genuinely evidence-backed, what's marketing, and what respectful integration looks

Every April 14, India garlands Ambedkar's portrait, ignoring his argument: caste cannot be reformed, only abolished. Words enshrined; work unfinished.

300 million practice yoga, turmeric lattes sell in Brooklyn, RRR won an Oscar — and nobody in Delhi planned any of it. India's unplanned soft power wave.

Pakistani label Uth Oye put Jinnah on a 'Dude, Where's My Car?'-inspired T-shirt: 'Ashton just lost his car. This poor guy lost a whole country.'