Asha leaves behind a legacy that is as much ours as it is India’s. The phrase “Nightingale of Asia” was coined for Lata, In Pakistan, we always had a prefix for Asha: “Hamari Nightingale.” Our nightingale. In her passing, Pakistan has lost a friend, a teacher, and a voice that made the world feel a little less divided.
The global music industry, where millions of songs are sung, and billions are spent and earned, is a larger story. But the duo’s role as singers remains iconic in India, and perhaps South Asia, where numerous others have come, stayed to make music, and gone.
The Korean noodle story is not really about noodles. It is about what happens when cultural influence travels faster than commercial infrastructure and faster than regulatory awareness. India's Gen Z - and possibly that of other South Asian countries - did not wait for brands to tell them what to eat. They watched K-dramas, did spice challenges, and built market demand that brands, regulators, and consumer education campaigns have simply not kept up with.
The Sufi Storyteller speaks to a wider South Asian moment, where Sufi traditions are increasingly invoked as counterpoints to narrowing religious and cultural orthodoxies. By foregrounding storytelling as both a spiritual and political act, Mansab gestures toward the enduring power of narrative to sustain pluralism, recover marginalized voices, and imagine more expansive forms of belonging.
When India underwent a national lockdown due to the pandemic, frequent sightings of wild animals in urban areas led to the misleading assumption that our natural biodiversity had begun to reclaim lost ground and getting restored due to reduced human interference
Swara Bhasker starrer Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, the latest Netflix original, has found a big fan in the Taiwan president who complimented the web series for “bringing laughter and courage in these challenging times.”
Namrata Shrestha has been declared the winner of Miss Nepal 2020. Shrestha, a teacher, was crowned Miss Nepal World 2020 in the grand finale of the event held in Kathmandu on Saturday
A Pakistani lecturer has been ranked among the top 1 per cent of most influential researchers worldwide in the field of computer science
Rahul Kumar, 22, the son of a migrant worker from Sosandi, a village in Bihar's Nalanda district, has graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, one of the premier educational institutes in the country
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta does not seek validation from his International Emmy win for his web series Delhi Crime, but by audience response
Suhaila Siddiq, the first female lieutenant general in the Afghan army and a former minister in the Afghan government, passed away on Friday morning at a hospital in Kabul, reported TOLOnews
Spectators have been barred from entering the Sooriyawewa International Cricket Stadium to witness Lanka Premier League matches, health authorities have reiterated
Zaki Daryabi, an Afghan journalist, has been awarded the International Anti Corruption 2020 Award by the global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International
Christopher Nolan feels Hindi films happen to retain the fundamental reasons due to which we enjoy cinema, and that Hollywood has lost some of that essence
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken the family of Shampa Khatun, a child in Jamalpur who was compelled to work as a rickshaw-van puller, under her wing
Amid all the noise about snubs and transparency, there are a few Indian tunes that have struck the right note at the Grammy Award nominations this year
Punjab Governor V.P. Singh Badnore on Monday virtually inaugurated the first-of-its-kind Museum of Trees -- a unique environmental project here for conservation of sacred trees of Sikhism after which many Sikh gurudwaras are named
For years no one cared for his fate; he lived a lonely life, much in chains, for 35 years in a Pakistani zoo, where he had come as a gift from Sri Lanka
Search giant Google has created a new doodle on its homepage in Bangladesh, celebrating the life of Bangladeshi playwright Munier Chowdhury to mark the 95th anniversary of his birth
