Last week, amid major political controversies, a tech CEO and an author of mythological fiction caused a furore about sati, the practice of widow-burning in medieval India. This worked up a storm on ...

Nikhil Siddharth is currently busy shooting for an interesting movie titled The India House. The movie is generating a great buzz already. Nikhil aims to make this as a pan-Indian project and the team ...

The site where Roop Kanwar is said to have committed sati. After 37 years, a Jaipur special court acquitted the eight accused in the Roop Kanwar sati case. These eight people had allegedly held an ...

In 1818 the rani of Travancore confronted a strange problem. A woman called Veeramma, widow of an immigrant soldier, wished to burn herself with his remains. Permission was denied, only for Veeramma ...

The makers of the much-anticipated pan-India film The India House have unveiled Saiee Manjrekar's first look as Sati. On Saiee Manjrekar’s birthday, the film's creators revealed her first look. In the ...

A Rajasthan court acquitted the last eight of the accused in the 1987 Roop Kanwar 'sati glorification' case due to inadequate evidence, ending a 36-year-long trial. The case revolved around the forced ...