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These cops are real. They are not acting. They become really scared of getting filmed while collecting bribes. And they disappear! You have to see ...

Fights like the one you are about to witness in this video are frequent. My camera has had a calming influence on this particular fight as you will...

Naming and shaming corrupt men and women have been an effective way of fighting corruption in most advanced societies. The men named in this video ...

Vimal is a Software Engineer in Kuwait. Like most expat Indians, he has an arranged marriage: his bride has been chosen by his parents after a leng...

Hari and Ganesh are two of the best known jewellers and sculptors in Cochin. Here we visit their workshop and see some of their exquisite works of ...

Behind the facade of his familiar evil persona, the real Ravan, the villain of Ramayan, is a pious man who is only acting out his 'karma' with his ...

The health of a nation will, one day, be measured by the number of its 100-year olds per a certain number of its population. Even before that happe...

For Hindus, mother is equal to God. This means that mothers, sometimes, have to endure super-human tests in order to establish their godly status. ...

15 acres of secluded pastures, private beach, villa-type accommodation, Ayurvedic massage, beach parties, crab-catching - these sound like ideal in...

Rastriya Swayam Sevak (RSS) is India's answer to Pakistan's Moslem League. But while the Moslem League succeeded in making Pakistan an Islamic Repu...

The people are having their say.

After suffering insufferable hardships from virtual ghetto conditions due to years of neglect by the Ghaziabad Dev...

Destruction of their normal habitat (tall trees in thick woodland) has forced large numbers of monkey families to convert unused Gangotri apartment...

Three of the most hard-working, dedicated and honest people at work in Gangotri that I have met are its three sewer-cleaners who work there just tw...

It is generally believed that Hindus worship many gods. But many Hindus will insist that God is one and that the various gods whom they worship ar...

With India getting richer, more and more Indians are taking to the roads and driving round the country. 'Haveli' on the Panipat-Kurukshetra road in...

This motel situated about 7 km from Taliparamba on National Highway NH17 has won the best motel award more times than any other. Its garden has bee...

England is the last place that Indians of my generation would expect to be cheated. And that too at a chain store outlet which has been a household...

India is changing. But traditions are not disregarded. This video shows that most traditions continue even if they are modified to suit modern cond...

Here is an example of the old and new India going hand in hand - Ammu, a software engineer singing a lullaby in her own language, Malayalam.

Yadus and Paru, brother and sister from Badagara in Kerala, belong to India's newest crop of self-confident children. They are also intensely patr...

Holi is a festival of colours. People throw colours at each other and, generally, have a good time. But some people psyche themselves up for the oc...

Kunhiettan died in 2007 after fighting his kidney failure for over twenty years. He has been kept alive during that time by dialysis machines which...

Holi is an Indian festival of colours. People, young and old, throw colours at each other and, generally, have a good time. But , sometimes, it can...

Kannur Muthappan is staged every Friday evening at the Muthappan temple on the Kannur Railway Station complex in North Kerala, India.

A Hindu ritual of getting in touch with departed elders. Once every year, these elders are believed to visit and bless the family in the form of ra...