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nion home minister P. Chidambaram’s declaration on the midnight of December 9 that the Centre would initiate the process of forming the state of Telangana seems to have thrown most Hyderabadis into a severe identity crisis. …

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Someday history will laugh a bitter little laugh at the thought that anyone would manufacture an application to improve the safety of walking while texting.

Lauren Greenfield traveled to Dubai earlier this year to photograph the housing bust. Her evocative photographs now seem prescient as well.

Hanna Ingber Win will cover Mumbai for GlobalPost. She was formerly the World Editor of the Huffington Post. She launched the section in the winter of 2008, and she won InterAction’s 2009…

Numerologists in India offer advice that uses mathematical formulas, and market themselves through infomercials, or writing newspaper columns or with Web sites.

An image of an obese passenger squeezed into an economy airline seat has reopened a debate about how airlines deal with growing numbers of oversized passengers.

Culture is our attitude to beauty and ugliness, to power, to religion, and to family. It shows in our music, in what makes us laugh. Civilization is our attitude to mankind