Sudarshan Ramabadran, policy expert, author, and international communications and public diplomacy professional. Public Diplomacy as an area of study, expertise and practice over a period, has ensured ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. On January 17 this year the Hindu Tamil populations of Malaysia, ...

Colourful, devotional and painful celebrations in Malaysia! Based on a programme by Siobhann Tighe for BBC World Service In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash ...

The most striking feature of the Hindu festival of Thaipusam is devotees carrying symbolic burdens of gratitude, ranging from milk pots to complex arrangements of heavy ornaments. But they don’t use ...

Malaysia is a unique country that has embraced its stunning cultural diversity. It is therefore rather commonplace to see communities of different ethnicities and faiths living together in peace and ...