As we deeply inhaled the saffron and cardamom aromas, we looked at each other and said, in sitcomesque simultaneity, “This ...

From Tulsidas to Mir Taqi Mir, how the Murty Classical Library of India is preserving South Asia’s literary legacy through ...

Today, many people in India follow the religious and cultural tenets we now call Hinduism. But where did the belief systems ...

For centuries, The Kama Sutra has been one of the most misunderstood texts in history. Mention its name, and many people ...

The two great men shook the world by their ideas and deeds, and lived their lives for others on this very land, twenty-five ...

The magic, supernatural explanations and the glamour of number six (6) is surely fascinating and worth exploring ...

IFS Jeysundhar D and Bharatnatyam exponent Rama Vaidyanathan on their engagement with 8th century Bhakti poet-saint Andal's ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn ... in Pahlavi (now lost), Syriac and Arabic—the original Sanskrit source vanished. A Hebrew translation was the basis for ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

In a moment of immense national pride and cultural validation, Bharat has secured a place on UNESCO’s prestigious Memory of the World (MoW) Register for two of its most profound and enduring ...

Did you know that the literal meaning of Jataka is ‘birth stories’? A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of Indian literature that mainly con ...

His original oil painting hangs in the Lakshmi ... a deer and an elephant. The tales span Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhalese, Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Japanese and English. It seems unfair to talk about ...