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Can you imagine the horror of eating samosas or dosas without a chutney? That's how important chutneys are in India. #FoodSecrets

The first Asian wrestler to win the World Professional Wrestling Championships Jatindra Charan Goho aka Goho Gobar from Calcutta took his family's legacy to great heights. Yet his achievement remains unknown in India.

Independent French researchers Carlo Oetheimer and Yohann Oetheimer recently published a paper discussing their findings in Thar, Rajasthan, and the discovery of possibly the world's biggest geoglyphs, that surpass the famous Peruvian Nazca lines.

In his book 'The Skull of Alum Bheg', Dr Kim Wagner, a British-Danish historian, details how a young soldier was falsely accused of th grisly murders of a British doctor and reverend.

Ishan Soni, third-generation owner of Delhi's iconic 74-year-old eatery Roshan Di Kulfi, talks about how his grandfather Roshan Lal Soni set up the food stall after the Partition of India, and how the family has expanded the business and carried on his legacy over the years.

In the early 1900s, a young Parsi man named George Edalji was accused of a series of animal killings in a village in England. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books, stepped in to help.

Samovar Tea Shop, run by 66-year-old Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Kolkata, is one of the view cafes in Bengal that still brews tea in the ancient giant copper kettle. We unravel its history and significance in the cultural landscape of the city.

In 1965, the US government approached India to help keep tabs on China's nuclear activities. What transpired was a secret expedition to the summit of Nanda Devi, which was abandoned halfway, resulting the a nuclear device being missing. Now, around 56 years later, the incident has been thrust into the spotlight once again.

In Kerala's Peruvemba village, one family has been making the Mridangam, a Carnatic instrument, for four generations. They make two types of Mridangams - Ech and Thag.

Goa's crown jewel, the Bebinca, takes 4 to 12 hours to bake. The primary ingredient to prepare this multilayered delicacy is patience and it was born out of the need for zero-waste cooking in the 17th century.