Mother Teresa never even lived in Albania so I don't see how it'd be a "return" of the remains... I hope this doesn't turn into a 3-way argument between Albania, Macedonia, and India.

Quoted: India rejects a demand by Albania for the return of the remains of Mother Teresa, currently buried in Calcutta.

Cool!

Quoted: Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old.

Best quote from the article, in reference to Obama saying Gandhi is one of the people he'd most like to be able to dine with: “It would probably be a really small meal because he didn’t eat a lot.”

Quoted: President Barack Obama has honoured Mahatma Gandhi on the Indian leader's birthday, saying his teachings transformed American society.

It's so sad that this problem only continues to grow worse...

Quoted: Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, activists and politicians said.

My most recent piece for The Root...

Quoted: Is spelling a cultural activity? Well, it is now. The final round of the South Asian Spelling Bee takes place this weekend.

Scary! Seems like a good sign that there hasn't been a tsunami several hours later...

Quoted: A 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands, briefly triggering a tsunami watch for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.

Oooh...

Quoted: Millions of people across Asia are in position to see the 21st century's longest total solar eclipse, but many planned to shutter themselves indoors out of fear.

Wow, pretty crazy!

Quoted: Hoping to bring the nation's census data into the 21st century, India has created the Unique Identification Authority. Under the direction of Nandan Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, the plan is to outfit every one of the nation's citizens with a biometric ID card that contains personal data, fingerprint or iris scans, and possibly even criminal records and credit histories.