"God resides in cow dung," says Kesari Gumat, as he walks through his laboratory where researchers mix bovine excreta with medicinal herbs and monitor beakers of simmering cow urine. The lab in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is one of a growing number of research centres which have embraced the sacred status of cows in India and sought to ...

Ben Kingsley this week makes his debut in a Bollywood film, nearly 30 years after his Oscar-winning performance in "Gandhi" catapulted him to worldwide fame. The 66-year-old plays a brilliant mathematician, Perci Trachtenberg, in the thriller "Teen Patti" (Three Cards) who meets a reclusive fellow academic, Venkat, at a London casino. Venkat (Amitabh Bachchan) tells him of a discovery he ...

Ben Kingsley this week makes his debut in a Bollywood film, nearly 30 years after his Oscar-winning performance in "Gandhi" catapulted him to worldwide fame. The 66-year-old plays a brilliant mathematician, Perci Trachtenberg, in the thriller "Teen Patti" (Three Cards) who meets a reclusive fellow academic, Venkat, at a London casino. Venkat (Amitabh Bachchan) tells him of a discovery he ...