The profound emotional connection was vividly evident in 2022 when, as the Indian delegation accompanying the relics entered the Gandan monastery, members of the crowd reached out to touch them, expressing their reverence for those who had come "from the land of the Buddha".
One idea which both young and senior activists are exploring is about the possibility of a series of visits by youth teams to the South Asian capitals to meet with the leadership. They want to explain how deeply young people are affected and committed to address the crisis of climate change, global warming, and especially the fragility of the mountain regions as witnessed in the recent devastation in Nepal.
The Taliban may curate the museum. The newsroom must curate the context. Without that context, international television risks giving an extremist movement something it has always sought, not necessarily agreement, but attention; not necessarily legitimacy, but spectacle.
For an Indian audience, the most meaningful response to W.R.A.P. is not the comforting declaration that Indians and Pakistanis are identical. Such a claim can erase real histories and differences as readily as nationalism exaggerates them.
A bride, who claimed she was already married and had a son, but was sold by her greedy paternal uncle for 700,000 rupees, slipped away from the wedding party and managed to report the matter to the police in Tangwani town of Kandhkot-Kashmore district in Sindh province of Pakistan
The reconstruction and conservation work on Nepal’s famous 10th century-old Seto Machhindranath Temple began on Sunday with Indian grants
An exhibition is being showcased at the Nepal Art Council in Kathmandu to support cancer patients
Bollywood actor and producer Pooja Bhatt has rated Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, as having the best food in South Asia
A Pakistani politician, who is believed to be aged in his mid-fifties, has married a 14-year-old Chitrali girl, triggering a row, media reports said
The Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera near Ahmedabad, which has been dubbed the " world's largest cricket stadium" with a capacity of 110,000 people, was Wednesday renamed as the Narendra Modi Stadium
At least 25 special priests from various sacred temples of South India have reached Kathmandu to perform 'Kshama Puja' (forgiveness worship) at Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu as the authorities have started work to replace the existing silver jalhari of the temple with gold-plated jalhari
While the COVID-19 pandemic has left no sectors unscathed, not many are aware how it has affected the people practicing folk arts and crafts
Kashmiri poets, young artists and language activists have gone hi-tech to preserve and promote Kashmiri language and also “sing songs of their own”
As a playwright and director, Chiranjit went beyond the usual entertainment quotient
Two universities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan - the northwestern province bordering Afghanistan that is ruled by Prime Minister Imran Khan's PTI party - have issued strict dress code policies by banning tight-fitted jeans, tee-shirts, and makeup among other things for its students, faculty as well as for its other staff members
When the golden yellow colour envelopes the entire country on the occasion of Basant Panchami every year, sunflowers mesmerise people, new crops of wheat and oat spread happiness everywhere and butterflies sprinkle joy and smile, a silent tradition being followed at the Hazrat Nizamuddin Aullia Dargah in the Indian capital
Pakistani influencer Dananeer Mobeen's viral ‘Pawri Ho Rahi Hai’ video has taken over Bollywood too
The National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) will host its first international virtual Phagwa or Holi conference in Trinidad on March 13 and 14
Images of the rock sculptures and restored paintings of the Ajanta Caves, 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western India, is being digitized and restored for future generations
