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Why should women keep long hair and men short hair?

Since time immemorial, hair has always been associated with beauty among women. Even in fantasy stories and cartoons, the princess or the most beautiful girl would ...

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The Cow in History and Hindu Tradition

The cow is a living heritage not just of Hindus but of humanity. In the world traditions the cow stands for fertility, prosperity and life, and is often called the ...

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10 Bloody And Shameful Civil Wars

Civil wars are merely an indication that even people who are closely related by ethnicity, culture, history, and geography, can have deep and divisive diff...

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Grandma Gatewood: The Celebrated Woman Who made History Hiking the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail Three Times in Her Old Age

The Appalachian Trail is a 3,500 km hiking trail that stretches from Georgia to Maine. It started as a dream idea by Benton Mackaye and cuts across 14 states of the...

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Who Is to Blame for Partition? Above All, Imperial Britain

LONDON — Seventy years ago this week, India and Pakistan became independent from the British Empire. The celebrations were cut short as the...

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Today in History:September 20

  Today is Wednesday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2017. There are 102 days left in the year.   Today’s...

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Five Beaches In Goa You Need To Hit Up For Dolphin-Spotting

  We love Goa, and spotting dolphins skipping through the waves, carefree and unrestricted has always been the cherry on our cake, and makes f...

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How ‘Gandhara’ Became ‘Kandahar’

Afghanistan’s epic history starts when it was an important region of ancient India called ‘Gandhara’.

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How my mother almost became Anarkali: poet Sophia Naz writes her mother Shehnaz’s biography

Why ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ director could not get the actor he wanted.

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Saffron paradox: Hindutva supporters seem determined to prove that Jinnah was right

Pakistan’s founder feared that Muslims in India would be shut out of power. As it turns out, Muslim representation in the Lok Sabha is at an all-time low....

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History of Indian Fashion

Fashion in India is as ancient as human civilization. It has been interwoven with Indian’s rich culture, history and different regions. What we are seeing now...

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Tulu-Nadu’s Bhootas

For the past 2,000 years, maybe even earlier, the Tuluva people have lived in Tulu-nadu, the coastal kingdom of Alva Kheda, once ruled by the Aupas, referred to in ...

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Why You Need to Learn About K. Seshadri Iyer, the Forgotten Creator of Modern Bengaluru

When you look at the swirling mist rising from the cascading waters of River Cauvery at the Shivanasamudra in Karnataka, you may not immediately think of electric...

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Untold Truth Behind Rani Padmavati & Alauddin Khilji That You Need To Know

There are various challenging stories about Rani Padmavati otherwise known as Padmini. While from one viewpoint, the Rajputs keep up the holiness of everything iden...

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The Forgotten Quantum Indian

At the age of 21, Satyendra earned a master’s degree from the University of Calcutta and he did so by securing 92% marks a record which stands unbroken up t...

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Today in History: Oct. 27.

  Today is Thursday, Oct. 27, the 301st day of 2016. There are 65 days left in the year.   Today’s Hi...

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Mystery of Pompeii Lakshmi: The 2000-YO Link Between India & the Roman Empire!

Unearthed by Amedeo Maiuri in 1938, an Italian scholar, Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that lays testimony to the intensity of Indo-Roman trade relations dat...

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Swami Vivekananda’s famous Chicago speech, quotes to inspire you

Swami Vivekanand delivered a powerful speech in Chicago on this day, 125 years ago. Introducing Hinduism to the world, he spoke about tolerance, inclusion and the n...

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Malayalis and China? A documentary shows that the connection is older than you think

Joe Thomas Karackattu’s ‘Guli’s Children’ searches for the descendants of a Malayali family that travelled from Calicut to China in the 14th...

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Why No Cities or Temples Came Up on the Banks of Chambal River?

For many Chambal region in India is associated with dacoits. The isolation of the area is associated with a curse of Draupadi. The curse is also the reason why ther...

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A History of India Gate in 60 Seconds

The 138-feet war memorial pays tribute to over 80,000 Indian soldiers who sacrificed their lives during the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. A desi...

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10 Inventions That Changed The World, But Were Made By Mistake

When you think of people who invented something that is used daily in the world today, or something that has literally changed the world, you immediately think of s...

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Gandhi Jayanti: Mahatma Gandhi on the birth of khadi

Gandhi Jayanti: In this excerpt from The Story of My Life by MK Gandhi, an abridged biography of Mahatma Gandhi, published by Scholastic India, the Father of the ...

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Why should women not go out with loose hair ?

It is a common scene nowadays with women in every corner of the world trying to beautify themselves by leaving loose hair; some even go to the extent of styling the...

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SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION ON IT'S VERGE

The sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is unfolding more quickly than feared, scientists have warned. More than 30% of animals with a backbone &mdash...

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