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From batik silk scarves to precious gemstones, the Uncrate India collection will take you on an enchanting style voyage.

Can you really ban love? That’s precisely the hope of a local council or “panchayat” in a rural village in India (via The Telegraph) that recently banned love marriages — those unions that haven’t been arranged by the parents of the bride.

Divorce is often cited as one of life’s most traumatic events. In terms of the amount of grief and distress it brings with it, the severing of the connubial knot is right up there with the death of a loved one and financial ruin.

We've been told that money actually can buy some happiness: especially if you make up to $75,000 a year (and can take care of all of your basic needs), and if you spend that money on helping others. But how do the poorest people in the world experience happiness? Here, I talk to Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a new non-fiction book about the men and women who live in a Mumbai slum called Annawadi.

Why would a woman want to bleach her private parts? Possibly because the culture in which she lives demands it. That appears to be the (sad) state of affairs for many dark-skinned gals in India, or so suggests a recent commercial for a vaginal whitening product directed at Indian consumers (via Time.com).