“Tujhe dekh ke goriye, Beyonce sharma jaayegi” – Your beauty, o fair skinned girl, puts even Beyonce to shame. Such […]
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“Tujhe dekh ke goriye, Beyonce sharma jaayegi” – Your beauty, o fair skinned girl, puts even Beyonce to shame. Such […]
On a Thursday morning in 1726, French colonial officials in Pondichéry – France’s principal colonial holding on India’s southeastern coast […]
Jacques Albert, the surgeon-major of Pondichéry, India, probably thought that Marie Cuperly was “good for it” when it came to […]
In 1731, Sister Mariana de Jesus, a young nun at the Augustinian Convent of Santa Monica in Portuguese Goa, was […]
In September of 1747, Rosa de Menezes went into labor in her home in the poorest quarter of Goa, the […]
In 1930, Delhi’s residents were sorely in need of a new hospital. The city’s population had ballooned by more than […]
Susheela, a woman from a small Indian village in western Uttar Pradesh, never imagined the day that she would help […]
I was listening to the BBC world news the other day and a story caught my attention. The story was […]