Shah Rukh Khan Says He Will Be Honoured To Introduce Britain's Royal Couple...
MUMBAI -- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says it's a great honour for him to introduce Britain's Royal couple Prince William and Kate Middleton. They are arriving on their first visit to India on...
View ArticlePodcast: Are Indians Finally Learning To Say "Cheese"?
A delicious food that often represents the epitome of richness, gluttony, and indulgence, cheese has rather humble origins. The earliest evidence of cheese production was found in a hamlet called...
View ArticleDing Dong Bell, Gay Dating Apps Are Hell
Image credits: Arjun Raj Friday morning. You take the day off, you are home, and you are alone. You don't want company because your introverted self craves alone time. You watch episode after episode...
View ArticleDear UPSRTC, More Legroom And Fewer Bums In The Roadside Please
Dear Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC), Today, I happened to travel by one of the Delhi-Bareilly 'Shatabdi' buses started by you. This post intends to hand-hold you through the...
View ArticleKerala Temple Fire: At Least 96 Dead And 350 Injured In Kollam
At least 96 people are feared to have died and 350 injured in a fire that broke out at a temple in Kerala early Sunday morning, according to TV reports. The incident took place at Puttingal temple in...
View ArticleWATCH: Fire At Kollam Temple During Fireworks Celebrations
Celebrations at the Puttingal Devi temple in Kollam took a tragic turn after a fireworks display at 3.30 am on Sunday caused a major fire. Over 80 people are feared dead while 350 others are reported...
View ArticlePM Modi To Visit Kerala Temple Fire Site, Announces Compensation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit the Kerala temple in Kollam today where a massive fire in the wee hours of the morning claimed 96 lives and injured over 350 people. I will be reaching...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Kollam Temple Celebrations Turn To Tragedy As Fire Breaks Out
Over 96 people are feared to have died and 350 injured in a fire that broke out at a temple the Puttingal temple in Kollam, Kerala on Sunday morning. The tragedy took place during a display of...
View ArticleNIT Srinagar Protest: Campus Calm As Authorities Meet Several Demands Of...
SRINAGAR -- Peace returned to NIT here today as its authorities met several demands of the outstation students, like relaxation on their movement and celebrating of festivals, in a bid to defuse the...
View ArticleDelhi Restaurant Apologises For Putting Out A Sexist Signboard That They...
It isn't unusual to hear of sexist jokes passed off as 'light humour', and the latest to join the big joke are restaurants in the national capital. The best you can expect, apparently, is a lame...
View ArticleMira Rajput Rumoured To Be Pregnant
It's been a while since rumours have been flying about Shahid Kapoor's wife, Mira Rajput, being pregnant. The couple married in July last year. A recent post on Rajput's Instagram account, which her...
View ArticleForget Bharat Mata, When Will The BJP Chant The Slogans That Really Matter?
The land of the holy cow has taken its holier-than-thou attitude up a notch. I refer to the "Bharat Mata ki Jai" fiasco that has hijacked the headlines in the Indian media for weeks now, shoving other...
View Article'I'm Not Needy. I'm Wanty': Are Brands Listening?
"I'm not needy. I'm wanty." - via @FunnyOneLiners on Twitter In his 1844 Paris Manuscripts, Karl Marx famously said that human beings are "creatures of need." And ever since--the irony of the world's...
View ArticleWhy Modi's Idea Of Simultaneous LS And Assembly Polls Is A Recipe For Chaos
Co-authored with Shruti Kedia Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently mooted the idea of evolving a method for holding Assembly and Lok Sabha elections simultaneously. Primarily two reasons stand out...
View ArticleThe Mapping of Mohalla Sabhas- Beginning of a Silent Revolution
It's generally been business as usual in the past few months in Delhi: high-decibel histrionics, raging national debates, existent anomalies and non existent controversies. From the rise of nationalism...
View ArticleThe Urgent Need For India To Build A Design Economy
The "Make in India" initiative aims to create 100 million new jobs in the coming 10 years in the manufacturing sector and boost its contribution to GDP from 15% to 25%. (Globally, manufacturing...
View ArticleWhy The BCCI Will Only Have Itself To Blame If Supreme Court Cracks The Whip...
“Are you refusing to be reformed?”, Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Friday April 8, in course of the hearing on the Lodha Committee report....
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: 112 Killed, 400 Injured In Kerala Temple Fire; BCCI Sacks...
The Morning Wrap is HuffPost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. Essential HuffPost Anant...
View ArticlePHOTOS: When The Duke And Duchess of Cambridge Hung Out With Bollywood Royalty
On Sunday night, a bevy of Bollywood stars descended upon South Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace hotel for a charity dinner hosted by the British High Commission to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,...
View ArticleTeenager Attends Classes, Gives Board Exams Despite Two Months Of Rape & Torture
NEW DELHI -- The Indian Express today reported on a Dalit teenager who showed unbelievable fortitude while caught in a horrific cycle of sexual abuse and torture in Thiruvananthapuram. The 15-year-old...
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