Teen girls are lined up along one wall of a Dimensions Dance Center studio gossiping, whispering, and giggling. It feels just like the backstage at a high school musical. But this is the Dances of ...

Men walk on fire, assistants are stabbed before reappearing unharmed, and white magicians attempt to evoke the Orient in journalist Zubrzycki’s (The Mysterious Mr. Jacob) underwhelming, Eurocentric ...

When UK-born Matthew Spacie moved to India in 1998 for his job as chief operating officer of Mumbai-based Cox & Kings, one of Asia’s largest travel groups, his days were busy. Shortly thereafter he ...

Oxford University Press has done an immense disservice to John Zubrzycki’s fascinating “Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic.” Apart from some print-on-demand atrocities, I’ve seldom ...

Before I visited Mayong, known as the black magic capital of India, black magic to me was a bit of hocus-pocus, abracadabra, an avoid-it-to-avoid-scary-thoughts subject and a problem deeply related to ...