Four kilometres from Bijapur on the road to Jamkhandi, Khatijapur’s mosque is not listed in even the most detailed of area guidebooks. But beyond the mosque, the village hides an even more singular secret: an extraordinary stepwell built in the time of the Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur.

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STRETCHING from the Jhelum in the east to the Indus in the west, and running across northern Punjab in Pakistan are the Salt Range Mountains.

The tourist guidebooks to Peru will tell you about the Incas, Machu Pichu, the Amazonian rainforests, the soft Alpaca wool and the beautiful textiles.

IN the ancient village of Pochampally live thousands of weavers who ply their loom to create the most complex designs through the warp and weft. Here, the art of Ikkat weaving is honed to a degree of precision that fills the onlooker with awe and it has placed this centre of silk weaving, 45 km. [...]

Balthazar Napoleon De Bourbon, an Indian residing in the city of Bhopal is being feted as the long-lost descendent of the Bourbon kings who ruled France from the 16th century to the French revolution.

Krimchi is a small village in Jammu and Kashmir where people have for centuries lived in harmony. This is the story of a tiny village in the terrorism-struck state of Jammu and Kashmir.

“Accounts indicate that the last meeting between the martyrs and their families never actually took place. When the families came to see their sons for the last time on March 23, 1931, the jail authorities prevented Bhagat’s grandfather Arjan Singh from meeting him, saying he was second degree relation. So Bhagat’s entire family walked out [...]

Apart from the widely known fact that Buddhism in Japan has its origin in India, not many probably know that many Hindu deities surround the life of a Japanese.

The sari is back in fashion in Pakistan, especially among the urban elite, nearly three decades after it went out of vogue due to the conservative policies followed by former dictator Zia-ul Haq.