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Head to this restaurant in Kala Ghoda to taste Hong Kong-style cafés known as ‘cha chaan teng’. We’ve drawn a list of dim ...

Opium was legal in Canada until 1907 ... was a row of cabins the World’s reporter found to be “more or less dens of gambling, inequity, shame and vice.” And not just vice for the Chinese ...

All you have to do is get the Dolls back together.’ And I thought, ‘Royal Festival Hall, Maria Callas…’ I combed every opium den in Chinatown, and I pulled that band together. We were ...

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Jeet Thayil discusses poetry, fiction, memory, and 'Melanin', offering sharp reflections on creativity, storytelling, and the ...

In 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' the actress plays over two dozen gender-bending characters; scenic and costume designer Marg Horwell shares how her looks come to life.

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The tour takes in temples and shrines, the sites of once-thriving Chinese opera theatres, brothels and opium dens, street art and premises devoted to still operational traditional trades.