As India celebrates Maha Shivratri, Bollywood has given us several songs dedicated to the glory of Lord Shiva. From powerful lyrics to soul-stirring music, these songs serve as devotional tributes to ...

Travelling to Tamil villages and rebuilding small, old mud-brick shrines in gleaming stone, the Chola dowager Sembiyan Mahadevi – Rajaraja’s great-aunt – effectively “rebranded” the family as the ...

The Tamil landscape, for centuries, had been shaped by the self-denying, often severe, philosophies of Jainism and Buddhism.

Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a sensitive bunch. Taste buds are clusters of tiny sensory cells. They detect ...

Your last meal is usually to blame if there’s a bad taste lingering in your mouth — but it could also be a sign you’re sick. So if something’s sour — or stale or rotten or just otherwise gross — read ...

Jess Loren remembers loving the taste of Cap'n Crunch cereal. Coca-Cola. Snickers bars. But now, instead of a sweetness, "they taste bland," she says. Flavors are noticeably muted since she started a ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

The spread at Saul Zabar’s shiva. The spread at Saul Zabar’s shiva. Credit... Supported by By Jacob Bernstein Visuals by Evelyn Freja At the shiva for Saul Zabar, held Thursday afternoon shortly after ...

Experts weigh in on what’s actually possible. Ask Well Experts weigh in on what’s actually possible. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times Supported by By Simar Bajaj Simar Bajaj has been ...

While Oscar Wilde, the famous Irish wit and writer never said this, he easily could have made this one of his bon mots: The only crime worthy of the death penalty is bad taste. Two events last week in ...

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