The author says such a static view of Indian village was a colonial construct created to present India as a land of hopelessness that needed intervention for progress.

Discover the inspiring story of Madhopatti, a small Indian village with just 75 families that has produced over 50 IAS, IPS, IRS and PCS officers. Learn the secret behind this real-life "IAS factory." ...

R.K. Narayan, the literary chronicler of small-town life in South India and one of the first Indians writing in English to achieve international acclaim, died yesterday in Madras, India. He was 94.

Explaining how the Indian village became a focal point of study for social anthropologists, the introduction brings together critiques of colonial notions of the self-sufficient village community ...

Most young people in the tiny Indian village of Chanka dream of life in the big city. But Girindra Nath Jha gave up his New Delhi life to return to his birthplace.

Swati Gupta, Class-XI, Ryan International School Life in an Indian village is not a walk in the park by any means. Farming and agriculture are one of the most difficult jobs. The Indian farmer, in ...

The village of Sarna Toli in eastern India hasn’t recorded one coronavirus case. Yet the rural enclave of about 250 people has been transformed by the global pandemic. Dozens of men who would ...