Lifestyle

Delhi's air crosses AQI 400, Mumbai's 10-km commute takes two hours, Bangalore's groundwater is falling. Tier-1 cities are victims of their own success.

India's new middle class buys premium phones while hunting discount deals — aspiration mediated by anxiety in an economy that offers no guarantees.

Ayodhya's Ram Mandir, the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, Tirupati's pilgrim economy: India's religious tourism boom — development policy in sacred dress.

From Fabindia's heritage craft to Dior's global status symbols: how India's wealthy stopped buying rootedness and started buying the same luxury vocabulary

India's exam machine sorts brilliantly, thinks poorly: millions of engineers following algorithms, few who question them. Why the incentives make reform hard.

India solved calorie hunger but not protein hunger. What national surveys show about protein intake, stunting, and why vegetarian diets need diversity to work.

After the marches fade, ordinary cases remain. Policing is necessary but insufficient — most threats come from known people. The case for community-led safety.

Bangalore traded the Garden City for India's Silicon Valley — and got neither. Traffic, lost green cover, priced-out identity: the cost of the IT bet.

SAGA reviews Townhouse Books & Café in St. Charles: an indie bookstore in an 1853 Victorian house on the Fox River — plus sandwiches and salads.

Yoga raises your heart rate when you flow continuously through poses — sun salutations, power yoga, vinyasa. A look at when yoga counts as real cardio.

Plastic surgeons say selfies drive business as millennials seek surgery over what they see in their photos — while psychologists warn the pressure warps values.

Anjali Varghese performed a three-hour solo Bharatanatyam arangetram at The Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin — a visual feast of adavus, abhinaya, and rhythm.

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

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.

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.

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.