Need a caption for your next selfie? Somebody get the new Taylor on the phone... Taylor Swift's talent for writing incredible lyrics is undeniable – and if you hadn't already discovered, those lyrics ...

Coke Studio Bharat, the platform celebrating India’s diverse musical heritage, has been striking a powerful chord with audiences in its third season. With Holi Aayi Re, Holo Lolo, and Punjab Vekh Ke, ...

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Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers who ...

Exacting Puritans who frowned upon the coronation of “Mr. A.” as Maharaja over 80,000 acres in the North Indian frontier wilds of Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious ...

A wealthy businessman is murdered, a courtesan escapes a royal harem, and rumours implicate the Maharaja of Indore, Tukoji Rao Holkar III. This case of love, betrayal, and intrigue shook Colonial ...

The killing of young businessman Abdul Kadir Bawla in Bombay's Malabar Hill 100 years ago, considered the most sensational murder in the British Raj, shook the empire in India. Bawla was with his ...

The victim, Abdul Kadir Bawla, 25, was an influential textile businessman and the city's youngest municipal official. His female companion, Mumtaz Begum, 22, was a courtesan on the run from the harem ...

Abdul Kadir Bawla was one of the wealthiest men in Bombay at the time of his murder It looked like an ordinary murder. One hundred years ago on this day - 12 January 1925 - a group of men attacked a ...