A cloud of grief and protest hangs over Kothe Chahal village in Punjab's Faridkot district, where the family of 22-year-old Agniveer Akashdeep Singh is refusing to perform his final rites - immersing ...

MICHAEL FISCHMAN recounts the time he experienced a lightness of being and became Shankara on the auspicious night of Maha Shivaratri I began to fall in love with India and with the colourful rituals ...