Mohua Das

At 62, Rick Allen is still living one of rock's most improbable second acts.

Society & Culture News: At first glance, it appears to be an ordinary wedding with shehnai in the background. But soon, the music dips and a large screen lights up to reveal .

India News: There are singers who belong to an era, and then there is Asha Bhosle, who treated decades like passing trends she would dip into and then outdo. A vo.

Society & Culture News: The baraat is perhaps India’s most recognisable piece of wedding shenanigans — a loud, sweaty, and celebratory party — to announce that a daughter is .

Society & Culture News: The sitar with its 20 strings has been around for five centuries. Rishab Rikhiram Sharma’s sitar has 640 LED bulbs and looks, in his words, “like a li.

On a recent evening in Mumbai, a roomful of people sat cross-legged on white gaddas in a crumbling cotton mill that once smelled of industrial damp but now had hints of mogra and attar wafting through. Chandelier floor lamps stood where massive iron spindles once did, and carpets hung where powerlooms rattled.

A video was circulated widely in 2024 that many shared with a mix of outrage and familiarity. At a wedding somewhere in north India, a man stands at the microphone and reads aloud, with the calm of reciting a grocery list, ‘gifts’ for the groom at the wedding ceremony: “a Mercedes-Benz E200, a Toyota Fortuner, 1.25 kg of gold, 7 kg of silver, Rs 72 lakh in cash.” None of the guests appears shocked.

Mohua Das / TNN / May 23, 2026, 21:43 IST

More than a decade ago, when Masooma Ranalvi first spoke publicly about being subjected to khatna (the local term for female genital mutilation or FGM) at age seven, she helped push the practice within the Dawoodi Bohra community in India into the national spotlight. As the SC resumes hearings in the long-pending case in which she is a petitioner, fresh evidence from Kerala is also widening the debate beyond the Bohra community.

We’ve all seen them. Circles of people in parks and gardens at sunrise, laughing in unison like life’s a riot but actually at nothing in particular.