What started as a verbal spat over a seat in a Mumbai local train escalated into a full-blown 'Marathi vs Hindi' fight between two groups of passengers, with a woman telling another group of female ...

If you explore the past work of Edward Burtynsky—the Canadian residual landscape photographer—you’ll discover that some of his finest work was done in the small Indian city of Bundi. There, Burtynsky ...

Observing that nobody can "hold the people to ransom", the Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray and his party members from indulging in violence ...

“Royal families used to support artists. Now it’s tourism that keeps art and tradition alive,” says Avijit Singh, the director of India’s House of Rohet group of small luxury hotels. He’s speaking ...

Garh Palace in Bundi, renowned for its unique wall paintings and Rajput architecture, is being conserved by royal siblings Manavendra and Janaki Kumari. A fine example of exquisite Rajput architecture ...

Given the conservatism of the houses of Rajputana; we would expect to find the main palace divided into separate areas for men [mardana] and women [zenana]. Percy Brown and Goetz suggest that whether ...

The Mihir Garh hotel near Jodhpur in India was just named "most extraordinary place to stay in 2014" by the writers and editors at Lonely Planet. The isolated hotel, built like a sand castle to ...