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On June 18, 2015, the Eye on India festival hosted actor Anupam Kher in conversation with journalist Victoria Lautman at Film Row Cinema in Chicago.

In Gujarat, a gang-rape survivor who was denied an abortion was ordered to undergo an 'agnipariksha' purity ritual before returning home — a test of

PASHA Orthodontics in Naperville invited high school seniors to apply for its 2015 college scholarship — $450, $350, and $250 awards for patients entering

In 2015, 13-year-old Izabel Laxamana died days after a video of her father's haircut punishment went viral. Police later said the video was not the cause of

A 2015 video showed a Volvo XC60 plowing into onlookers — not self-parking, just a dealer driver testing the car's braking system on real people.

In 2015, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell pledged to remove artificial flavors and colors from their menus. Customer pressure — not corporate kindness — made it happen.

In 2015 California tore out 2,100 football fields of lawn as the drought deepened. Gov. Jerry Brown said daily-watered grass would be a thing of the past.

Some people say Wi-Fi makes them sick. The WHO says their symptoms are real — but there is no scientific basis linking them to electromagnetic exposure.

A 12-year-old asked Quora what he could do now to join a top university later. The advice he got is worth reading at any age.

Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.

Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet dazzles with jazz, art deco and grandeur, but the storytelling falls flat. Our 2015 review of the Ranbir Kapoor starrer.

Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.

Niketa Jhaveri, a Naperville mom and UX designer, turned her five-year-old's endless questions into Brave Champs, an educational board game.

Arup Raha reviews Shoojit Sircar's Piku — a father-daughter road trip built on great performances by Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Irrfan.

Baba Ramdev's Divya Pharmacy sold 'Putrajeevak Beej' — a name critics said promised sons. Ramdev called it an infertility drug; MP banned it anyway.

WotNow — a social local calendar app built by Naperville residents Deepa Salem, Anand Sivaraman, and Vidhya Iyer — launched in 2015.

A preschooler was denied her Oreo snack at school — and her mother pushed back against 'lunch shaming' in a debate over who decides what kids eat.

Texas A&M Galveston professor Irwin Horwitz failed his entire Strategic Management class — then the university overruled him.

Nurse Maria Sevilla's visa was refused because of her autistic son Tyrone's healthcare costs — and her Change.org petition gathered 123,000+ signatures.

IIT Kharagpur researchers adopted 14 acres in Khentia village as a living lab — SRI rice, vermicompost, and rainwater harvesting for small farmers.