It is certainly not true that all Indian food is highly spiced and red hot with chilies (which didn’t even reach India from the Americas until the 16 th century). But many dishes are built around ...

India’s wet monsoon climate made it difficult ... Only about a thousand years ago, following Mongol invasions, did the Rajasthan-Gujarat and Tibet regions begin breeding horses adapted to ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

Hussaini, also known as the Aga Khan, died on Tuesday, February 4, aged 88. A colossally wealthy philanthropist, he was also the imam of the Nizari Ismaili faith, an esoteric branch of Shia Islam that ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

The Yuan Dynasty was the first foreign-ruled dynasty in Chinese history, and arose when China was fully conquered by the Mongol armies ... end for British imperium. India became independent ...

However, a U.S. led invasion in 2003 would ultimately topple ... when it separated from India. This division would set the stage for India and Pakistan to slug it out in the decades to come.