India

From defecating logs to KFC-fuelled feasts, Christmas inspires a host of eccentric and colourful rituals

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Monday 30 November

The radiation technology left soldiers vomiting and incapacitated without breaking no-live-shots rule

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Wednesday 11 November

And other stories from the stranger side of life

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Wednesday 7 October

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Friday 2 October

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Thursday 1 October

Are China and India on the war path? Does your office need spiritual guidance? And what is the Fed up to on inflation?

Keeping tabs on millions of pilgrims has led to the building of a surveillance mini-state, says Monica Jha

Large number of Indians thought to have antibodies raising hopes of avoiding a second spike

Tests show that likely levels of immunity range from 68% in parts of New York to less than 1% in India

It now has more cases than anywhere in the world except Brazil and the US

Indian soldiers ‘beaten to death’ in first fatal clashes for 45 years

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Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Wednesday 27 May

And other stories from the stranger side of life

Experts puzzled by populous South Asian country’s limited outbreak

Community has been wrongly accused of being responsible for spread of Covid-19

21-day restriction imposed to tackle spread of virus

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Monday 16 March

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Monday 9 March

Muslims forced to flee as sectarian violence erupts again over citizenship law

And other stories from the stranger side of life

US president is making his first official trip to the world’s most populous democracy

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Wednesday 22 January

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Tuesday 7 January

Jawaharlal Nehru University has previously been targeted by group linked to governing Bharatiya Janata party

Critics say controversial legislation aims to marginalise Muslims

Children have been playing in ‘acrid’ white suds despite medical warnings

The world’s ‘largest animal sacrifice’ is being held in defiance of ban

National demonstrations after woman’s burned corpse was found in Hyderabad

Supreme Court says Indian states may be forced to pay for failing to tackle growing crisis

The largest in history at its height, there is little left of the British Empire today