Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also… Read more »

The College Street market in Kolkata, India, has less than a year to prepare for the arrival of some serious competition. Peter Yeung at Atlas Obscura reports that the legendary market,… Read more »

On Thursday, September 6th, the Supreme Court of India unanimously declared unconstitutional that the country’s 150 year old ban on consensual gay sex. It was a momentous decision, one which… Read more »

Voices around the world have urged an Indian publisher to cease distribution of a children’s book called Great Leaders, which includes Adolf Hitler among its examples, according to a Times of Israel staff report. According to… Read more »

Ah, for the salad days, before Twitter, when we had to wait to mock politicians until they audibly uttered their terrible grammar (we’ll never forget you, Dan Quayle, you mighty Potatoe-head). It’s… Read more »

What matches the dictionary’s definition of a monopoly to a T, isn’t particularly profitable, makes your kids grow up rude, and can’t seem to stop making news? Yeah, you guessed… Read more »

According to the NOP World Culture Score Index, India is a nation of readers, with citizens reading more, by the hour, than any other nation: an average of ten hours… Read more »

(Trigger warning for any of you production department employees out there—this story gets into some very anxiety-inducing territory.) The southern Indian state of Kerala recently saw a violent clash between… Read more »

Bertelsmann, the German media giant that owns that little publisher Penguin Random House, has decided to grow in the education and digital media markets abroad. The company announced yesterday that it… Read more »

The president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, has written a book that’s due to come out this week, about Indira Gandhi’s reign as prime minister. But, in a move that Kim… Read more »