Cultural Exchange

‘Jinnah couldn’t teach us Urdu, Bollywood has taught us Hindi’: Shadhona's Lubna Marium

Lubna Marium is artistic director at Dhaka's Shadhona, a center for the advancement of South Asian culture. She tells us about the bonds between India and Bagladesh

As relations strengthen US, Cuba colleges form partnerships

As the U.S. and Cuba mend ties, colleges in both countries are forming partnerships that once were heavily restricted.

Modi 's 3-nation tour: Myanmar is India’s window to South East Asia

India is attaching increasing significance to Myanmar which is borne out by the fact that for the first time in the modern history of India-Myanmar bilateral ties, an Indian Prime Minister has visited this contiguous neighbour twice in the same year.

Back on tour: PM Modi in Myanmar for 25th ASEAN summit

Within hours of his landing in Naypyitaw, new capital of Myanmar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held the first of his over 20-odd bilateral meetings during his 11-20 November three-nation tour when he met his first host country’s president Thein Sein.

FBI probing whether head of Russian culture exchange scheme was a spy

The FBI is looking into whether the U.S.-based director of a Russian government-run cultural exchange program is a spy who tried to recruit young Americans.