As kids we all have grown up hearing scary and spooky stories about ghosts, spirits and vampires, and one thing that was ...

Rukmini Vasanth opens up on expanding her Hindi film career and receiving many exciting offers for next commitments.

Long before Disney turned Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid into global blockbusters, European writers, editors, and folklorists captivated readers with their fairy-tale collections as early ...

Set in the early first half of the 20th century, Crossings tells the stories of four young people: Samy, Abdul and Mei Ling, Majeed, and Lily. The novel offers a rare perspective on colonial-era ...

Monique Hinton rubbed her fingers together in one of her recent YouTube videos, signaling to her million-plus followers on the platform that she had a moneymaking business idea for them. She first ...

A bus driver from Tamil Nadu has gone viral on the internet as the newest “pookie,” a term the digital generation lovingly reserves for someone irresistibly adorable. And the reason behind this viral ...

Every life is a universe all its own.

How far will you go for the thing you want? When a person becomes an adult, measured thinking and semantic reasoning can get in the way of heartfelt desires. But in Harikumaran's Kinaru, everyone is a ...

“The Parsis came all the way from Persia, landing on the coast of Gujarat, not far from where I live—Nargol. The ruler, Jadi Rana, didn’t want foreigners in his land. He sent them a silver urn, filled ...

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