Ideas, science, history and curiosities: the surprising, the strange and the thought-provoking, from India and around the world.
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Red carried the evening at Sunita Kapoor's Karwa Chauth party on Thursday. A traders' lobby wants husbands to fast too. If they do, they should dress for it.
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A black bear let itself into an unlocked Subaru in Juneau, Alaska, on October 26, and the door apparently slammed shut. Police freed it with a rope. The car's interior did not survive.
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Sonia Sharma follows the festival's last day through Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Ahmedabad and Chennai, with the trade routes behind the food and two home recipes you will not find in a sweet shop.
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Four Ladakhi labels showed pashmina on the last day of Lakmé Fashion Week in Delhi. Before you buy one in America, know what the label is allowed to say.
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South Asian gambling harm is often blamed on culture and shame. The research from India, Britain and the United States points to the product and the law.
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At a 2015 Cupertino fundraiser, Indian-Americans raised $75,000 as the first step toward a $4 million, 200-bed eye hospital in Bihar with 25,000 free
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When Maggi was banned in India in 2015 over lead concerns, legal notices went to celebrity endorsers like Madhuri Dixit. Where does an endorser's liability end?
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Why do Indian-American families push so hard on academics? From skilled-worker immigration to the tiger-parent ethos, a look at the culture of excellence.
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In 2015, Chicago-area theater group Ekjut staged Yoni ki Baat at Naperville's North Central College — a look back at this community theater notice.
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An NGO and Chandigarh Police rescued 63-year-old Sukhi, who had locked herself in her Sector 36 home for days, untreated and battling depression.
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In May 2015 the world was told a Nigerian restaurant served human flesh. Days later the Anambra police debunked it and the BBC retracted the story.
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A popular Quora thread asked what Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others did between ages 10 and 22. The answers share a striking pattern.
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In 2015, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh offered severance to anyone who didn't want Holacracy's boss-less system. 210 employees — 14% of the company — took it.
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A Philadelphia dad took his kids to the Boston Marathon, got a warning letter from the school, and wrote back a reply that went viral worldwide.
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The Supreme Court ruled that abusing in-laws and barring them from the matrimonial home amounts to mental cruelty — a valid ground for divorce.
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'Ponytail-gate': a sexual-harassment complaint was laid against NZ Prime Minister John Key after waitress Amanda Bailey described his repeated hair-pulling.
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A 2015 community announcement: Ekjut, the Chicago-area theater wing, presents Rangmanch par Ek Sham Aap Ke Naam, after the hit staging of Pyar ka Panchnama.
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NASA's $18,000 bed-rest study at UTMB Galveston: 70 days in bed to understand how spaceflight changes the body — and how to counter it.
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In 2015, drinks giant Diageo committed to voluntary nutrition and alcohol-per-serve labeling across brands like Smirnoff, Tanqueray, and Guinness.
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A 21-year Finnish study found men who took saunas 4–7 times a week had far lower rates of fatal heart disease — with the usual observational-study caveats.
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