World's spiciest pepper. "In northeastern India the peppers are smeared on fences or used in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance"

"Over the years, city authorities have employed monkey catchers who use langurs — a larger and fiercer kind of monkey"

big, old and fancy

Testimonials from couples who found each other on a leading indian arranged marriage site. Nerve this is not.

long jain religious instruction text. The cosmology is very interesting, like a friendlier eastern scientology

form of group ritual suicide by rajput communities defeated in battle

disturbing photo from the Sepoy Rebellion

review of essay collection by Nobel-prize winning economist