The idea behind organizations and events that connect people through identity or race is to create a space where minorities don’t experience discrimination and can connect over a shared culture.

For as long as I can remember, my dad had one goal: to live longer than his dad did. I never met my grandfather — or as we call him in Tamil: Appappa. He died of a heart attack when he was 56: before ...

In the past, researchers have paid limited attention to this fact, which has led to a dearth of modern anthropological, historical and archaeological investigations as well as insights regarding this ...

Wars, occupations, and colonisation have long been driven by the struggle for the earth's resources. History shows us that the Roman Empire invaded Egypt primarily to seize its abundant grain.

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

Asia Society Museum in New York is throwing new light on a somewhat neglected period of art history in India — the final years of Mughal rulers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sure, that is a long ...