Social media is abuzz with a new trend among popular Telugu film directors, who seem to be embracing a unique way of ...

Yabu is an unattractive and incompetent middle-aged publishing editor. Mika is a beautiful young author who debuted at 18 and has since written two best-sellers. When Yabu commissions some writing ...

Medical colleges figure disproportionately in the list of complaints to UGC's anti-ragging cell, but anti-ragging activists ...

Medical colleges figure disproportionately in the list of complaints to the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) anti-ragging ...

In a fresh incident, 23 fishermen from Rameswaram were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy personnel on charges of poaching when ...

Nearly a fourth of all Tibetan males took the tonsure and maroon robes of monkhood. The great monasteries counted members in the thousands and owned huge tracts of farming and grazing land.

Born into a samurai family, he took the tonsure at the age of 13. After studying Shingon esoteric Buddhism at Daigoji in Kyoto, he traveled to Song-dynasty China three times, bringing the latest ...

monk-favoured tonsure look. So does the notable hair help? Obviously the supreme skills of the famously un-hirsute Kojak blows this theory out of the water. Sometimes the great sleuths have to ...

The first time Daniel Allan waved a brand-new white skull cap at Pope Francis, the Pope didn’t stop. It’s a tradition in Rome ...

As Kashmir advances under the Smart City Project, the quiet allure of its Rishi shrines reveals a profound cultural heritage often overlooked. In a region known as Reshiwaer—the Valley of Rishis—the ...

Its detailed design includes a crowned Virgin Mary holding the Christ child and kneeling to her right is a monk looking up at her, identified by his tonsure. He would have attached the matrix to a ...

A bench of justices SM Subramaniam and V Sivagnanam wondered in court why Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru, encourages women to tonsure their heads and live like hermits when he ensured that ...