I settled on a rock in Central Park, the New York skyline behind me. A glassy new skyscraper neared completion in its stretch toward the skies. I was striking a few poses in my superhero costume when ...

For Northern Ontario’s Sikh community, finding a turban meant ordering from afar. Thanks to one international student-turned entrepreneur in Sudbury, that is no longer the case. Gurpreet Singh Broca ...

On a spring day in 1993, my mom drove me to a hair salon in Linden, New Jersey, and got me a haircut. It was my first. I wasn’t yet three. She knew that she was jeopardizing her marriage. She knew ...

The Taliban government's education ministry cites strengthening discipline, masking social inequalities and promoting what the authorities see as true Islamic attire as reasons for the dress code ...

If you walk into a fancy store in places like Soho or South Bombay, you’ll probably see someone wearing a turban, ready to help you out. Just like the famous Air India Maharaja, the turban shows a ...

Each region of India boasts its own unique sartorial traditions, reflected in the diverse array of traditional headgear. From pagdis and pagris to topis, these caps and hats are integral to men’s ...

Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area is Meta’s AI chatbot, which, ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

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Turbans can reduce the risk of serious head injuries, research has found, after a Sikh cyclist said wearing one saved his life in a collision. Jagdeep Singh, from Buckinghamshire, came off his bike on ...