The innocent pinky promise has a surprisingly dark past. Discover the shocking history of Yubikiri, the Japanese origins of the pinky swear, its connection to finger-cutting, ancient loyalty rituals, ...

In the two movies that essentially had to condense 3,500 pages worth of richly-imagined historical fiction, Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan had a lot riding on tacit, economical performances. For ...