Conflicts between people do not last. Sooner or later, they are resolved. Time and people move on. But while a conflict lasts it exacts its toll, disfiguring those feuding from within. When it extends ...

In our literature, glances are often a medium through which love enters and finds a seat in the heart, and many a stage of love is bridged with the exchange of a single glance. But sometimes it goes ...

Even today many Muslim households in South Asia have a special amulet to ward off evil spirits and jinn, especially from children. What is little known is that the inscription on the amulet was ...

Before Sikander Lodi arrived to give audience, his assembled nobles had been overpowered by a fragrance that wafted in from the ante-chamber where the aide of the Rana of Jodhpur was waiting with his ...

In his portrait Niccolao Manucci has the appearance of a dandy. He is dressed in striped pyjamas, and an angarkha that ill-conceals his paunch. His gait seems hurried and a little unsteady. He is seen ...