Kyoto, JapanUnderground Kyoto TourOn a walk through the Matsukoni area, where Kyoto’s grey markets flourish, visitors can see how the underground economy (and Japan’s crime-network, the Yakuza) operates. There’s also…
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Puja Changoiwala is an award-winning investigative journalist whose first book, The Front Page Murders, came out in 2016. It covered a spate of serial killings in Mumbai in 2012, in…
On September 13, 2008, five bomb blasts tore through Delhi’s Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash neighbourhoods. The explosions, which killed 20 and injured 90, felt disturbingly familiar. Similar…
Hussain Zaidi has been busy. Shah Rukh Khan’s production house, Red Chillies, adapted his book Class of ’83, a true story about a police encounter squad that dismantled Mumbai’s underworld.…
Can you lift an element from a vibrant, politically charged subculture and turn it into a major mainstream sporting event? The short answer is yes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC)…
“I’ve learnt to never take things for granted,” says Gaurav Sharma. “Our family faced many difficulties after we moved from Himachal Pradesh to New Zealand. There were ups and downs…”Sharma…
1) Harshad Mehta was a flamboyant stock broker known as the Big Bull who, in the early 1990s, in collusion with unscrupulous bankers, pulled off what was until then the…
Stealing our hearts with her sartorial elegant television debut, Telugu star Samantha Akkineni gave fans a sneak-peek of her festive look from Bigg Boss stage as she hosted the maha…
All zodiac signs have their own characteristics and traits which define someone’s personality. Wouldn’t it be helpful if you started your day by already knowing about what’s going to come…