As traditions get diluted, Holi is a festival that Persons of Indian Origin (PIO’s) have conserved so well that burning Holika in Suriname is always preceded by Hindu rituals, yet the festival has ...

Little is known in the outside world about this far away tropical paradise situated on the northeast coast of South America. This was one of the lures that enticed a visit by Bermuda's Lloyd Webbe of ...

When I visited Lucknow in the final trimester of my tenure in India, I realized the confronting experience of seeing the ruins of the Residency where in 1857, the Independence movement of India ...

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