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Sea of humanity at Kumbh Mela pilgrimage
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» PRAYAGRAJ, India - Millions of Hindu pilgrims are gathering in India to bathe in sacred waters for the six-week-long Kumbh Mela festival — from the very old to babies, cave-dwelling monks to science teachers.
India opens giant Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims
AFP, Published on 13/01/2025
» PRAYAGRAJ (INDIA) - Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers expecting 400 million people -- the largest gathering of humanity.
'Bulldozer justice' reigns in an unchanging India
Oped, Published on 11/09/2024
» Politically motivated bulldozing has returned with a vengeance in India. Earlier this month in the state of Madhya Pradesh, a local Muslim leader and member of the opposition Congress party watched his home, supposedly "illegally built", reduced to rubble. A district official then gloated on social media that justice had been served for recent attacks on the police. Meanwhile, in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh, bulldozers flattened an "illegal" shopping complex owned by a Muslim functionary of an opposition party who had recently been arrested on charges of gang-raping a minor girl.
Rakesh Saxena freed from jail, will be deported
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/09/2024
» Police have detained Bangkok Bank of Commerce (BBC) collapse kingpin Rakesh Saxena following his release from prison and he will be deported.
The mother of all climate feedbacks?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/05/2024
» 'Just like this year, last year the heatwave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Thailand. This year it went further east, into the Philippines. So, it's the same pattern," said Prof Krishna Achutarao of the Indian Institute of Technology. "I do not particularly buy into this idea that El Niño is the cause."
Temple opening emboldens Hindu activists
Published on 27/01/2024
» NEW DELHI - A powerful Hindu group claims several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just days after a huge temple was inaugurated on the site of a razed mosque.
Explore the heritage of Madhya Pradesh
Life, Published on 19/09/2023
» Siam Society is holding a study trip to Madhya Pradesh in central India from Oct 30 to Nov 6.
A modern look at India’s culinary landscape
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 04/09/2023
» It should come as no surprise that one of my favourite cuisines, come rain or shine, is Indian. Of course, having been born and brought up in Bombay, India, has a lot to do with it. The other factor is that the variety of cuisines in India is vast, as vast as the country itself and then some.
Arm wrestling grips India with glitzy dreams
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» NEW DELHI - Athletes flex muscled biceps before going hand-to-hand in a newly televised arm-wrestling league seeking to take the sporting spotlight in otherwise cricket-mad India with a glitzy Bollywood-style makeover.
Dum Handi Biryani Founder: How the pandemic created a Bangkok business that sells 1M biryanis a year
Published on 14/02/2023
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