Karnataka Boy Plays With Monkeys Every Day A one-year-old boy in Hubli in Karnataka wakes up everyday at 6 am. And that’s not because of an alarm clock, it is because of his friends – a number of monkeys. The video, posted online by news agency ANI, shows the toddler walking towards a troop of monkeys and feeding them food one by one. The boy seems completely at ease with […]

Seventy years ago, in August 1947, British colonial rule in India came to an end. The country was divided into two independent states – Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Using letters and diaries sourced from the world’s first Partition Museum which opens in Amritsar on 17 August, Soutik Biswas pieces together the extraordinary story of four friends who were separated by the traumatic event and reunited 30 years later. “Our […]