Silverware from a centuries-old shipwreck in Western Australia has revealed misunderstandings of Indian culture. Australian historians studying the silverware say the items were luxurious goods intended for the Mughal Empire in India.
On a deserted island off the west coast of Australia in the summer of 1629, mayhem reigned. Pitted against one another were several groups of sailors, naval officers, civilians and their wives and children, all of whom were competing either for vast, almost ludicrous amounts of treasure or, in many cases, their very lives.
While many critics called the Starbucks advertisement "foreign propaganda", the transgender community in India has a long and storied history in India.