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While the world dreads the loss of millions of jobs due to the global economic crisis, the victorious sit-in of the Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sanghatan (SKMS) offers hope.

A new study cites TV in India as liberating for women housewives in rural areas.

Packing light and packing thoroughly may sound contradictory, but here are some tips for what a visitor to India should include in the luggage to be well prepared.

Slum tours or reality tours offer tourists a chance to experience a side of India one can't get from staying in five-star hotels.

Florence Nightingale rejected the role expected of a woman of her time and contributed to the improvement and development of sanitary reform, nursing and public health.

Find out which music is right for different kinds of meditation. Find music that will soothe, relax, calm, energize, stir, rouse, or awaken the soul.

The human life span is divided into four ashrams. These are Brahmacharya, Grahasta, Vanaprastha and Sanyasa. The Vedas define a specific purpose for each ashram.

From the Bible to Dan Brown, writers have used albinism's whiteness to shade characters that are either too good or too evil for this world. Few survive.

Dallas Jessup, a 17 year old high school senior and creator of the organization "Just Yell Fire", has proven that the youth of today are passionate about finding a cause.

Karnataka's luxury tourist train, the Golden Chariot, pulled out of Bangalore on its first journey in March 2008. The travel industry has since faced difficulties.

The Riga Veda describes the wedding of Suryaa, or Dawn, to Soma. Verses from this hymn, and from other hymns of the Riga Veda, are chanted in Hindu weddings even now.