Seventy-five years ago, Mohandas K. Gandhi was shot dead by an assassin while on his way to deliver a regular…
India
Local concoctions are challenging the country’s conservative attitude toward alcohol, along with the country’s often stultifying bureaucracy.
Officials at a public university cut the electricity before a planned screening, and the government has prevented clips from appearing…
Every winter in the early 1980s, a sturdy bus departed Kolkata, India, for a concert tour of provincial towns. On…
Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his…
NEW DELHI — On a freezing December day on a remote Himalayan mountain ridge, Indian and Chinese soldiers fought with…
Seated in the domed, red sandstone government building unveiled by the British Raj less than two decades before India threw…
A former rebel chief became prime minister for a third time in a country long racked by political instability.
It is hard to imagine the United States going for two years without an ambassador representing its interests in Beijing,…
Tensions are still simmering two years after a deadly confrontation over a remote region each country claims as its own.