Curious Indian

One marks the end of a month-long fast with a feast of sweets; the other honors supreme sacrifice with an...

Once a year, an exiled king returns from the netherworld, and an entire state rolls out a carpet of flowers...

For ten days every autumn, the city of Kolkata doesn't sleep. The streets turn into art galleries, the air vibrates...

On the darkest night of the year, a billion lamps are lit to guide the gods home. The sky explodes...

For centuries, Indian sculpture meant divine idols carved in stone or cast in bronze. Then came a generation that decided...

What happens when a British architect tries to build a European monument using Indian craftsmen? You get a mesmerizing fusion...

Before the world had factories, India was clothing the globe. From the dyed cottons of the Indus Valley to the...