Riots erupted yesterday afternoon in central Delhi after news broke that a local teacher was peddling her underage female students in a homegrown prostitution ring. Uma Khurana, who teaches math at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, a government-run school in the Daryaganj area, allegedly drugged her students, took nude pictures of the girls, and then blackmailed [...]

Approximately 900 million Hindus live in India, which, at 81.5% of India’s 1.1 billion population, constitutes the overwhelmingly largest number of Hindu citizens of any nation on the globe. It might be initially surprising, then, to consider that many Indians feel ‘more Hindu’ when they move to the United States, and out of the world’s [...]

Indian writer Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The shortlist rocked the expectations of those in the publishing world who follow the prize, as the longlisted author favoured to win, David Mitchell, was eliminated, along with other likely contenders Peter Carey, Andrew O’Hagan, Nadine [...]

Welcome to the festival season! Today marks the beginning of the festivals with Raksha Bandhan, or, as it is more commonly called, Rakhi. Whether you are a brother, a sister, or even an only child with a “sibling” outside of your family, you no doubt are familiar with the tradition in which the sister ties [...]

With the largest amount of child laborers in the world, it is not uncommon in India to see children working in restaurants, food stands, or within houses. Under the 1986 Child Labor Act, children under the age of fourteen are already prohibited from employment in industries that could be hazardous to their health, such as [...]

The Indian government’s attempt to block perceived Hindu-nationalist or anti-Islam blogs isn’t going over well in the blogosphere, where bloggers tend to stick up for each other’s right to publish, even if they vehemntly differ on the issues.
Anivar Aravind links to several articles and blogs reporting and commenting on the blog ban.

In case you’ve missed out on the generation jump in ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi,’ whose first new episode aired on 7 June, here’s your opportunity to make up for twenty lost years.
The six-year-old serial following the fate of the Virani family has had a double-digit TRP for nearly five years running, setting records [...]

100 years ago, India was home to 40,000 tigers. Today, the number hovers somewhere between 2,000 and 3,700.
This drastic decrease gains all the more import because this meager number represents nearly half of the world’s tiger population.
Conservationalists have targeted India as a place in need of wildlife reform because of the decades of rampant [...]

The October issue of Little India magazine features an article on Millbourne, PA, the first and only town in America with an Indian Majority. The article, which happens to be the cover story, not only tells the tale of Millbourne in numbers and statistics, but also in short personal vignettes that highlight individual [...]

Boy meets girl…but how? Through mom, perhaps, and with the norms of tradition and desires of modernity swirling in the air. At least according to a humorous posting by Kartik, who has some thoughts on the matter.