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Attitudes are dramatically shifting in India where young beer- and wine drinkers are taking on what they call the "morality police" who impose strict restrictions on the consumption of alcohol. Among them is Suketu Talekar, who is setting up his own microbrewery.

In India, all eyes were on Sunday's final of the new Indian Premier Cricket League. The league plays a modified form of cricket, full of Western sports influences, but it has been a commercial success.

In his latest "Letter from India," NPR's Philip Reeves explains how the wealth gap plays into India's obsession with murder — both fictional and real.

The Postmaster, one of the stories in Teen Kanya (Ray Family Collection) "Not to have seen the cinema of [Satyajit] Ray means existing in the world…

Indian Film Festival: Teen Kanya

Jodhaa Akbar , and its message of religious tolerance, arrives at an appropriate time considering global events. Gowariker's portrait of Akbar's reign…

Mayawati Kumari is the chief minister of one of India's largest and poorest states. She's also the richest woman in India and one of the best known. Now there's talk about her possibly becoming the country's next prime minister.

The Bollywood Experience

is reportedly the biggest day and date international release in Bollywood history with 2000 prints in circulation. Bollywood takes its name from the blending of Bombay (the former name of the city of Mumbai where these films are made) and Hollywood. Bollywood refers to a particular high gloss, studio film that harkens back to the old Hollywood studio films of the 40s. So if you feel that Hollywood no longer makes big glamorous musicals then

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