Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

A Sanskrit–Greek stele and Buddha statue found in ancient Berenike, Egypt, reveal deep cultural links between Indian traders ...

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday expressed concern over the declining use of Indian languages ...

There was a time when entire communication, sharing, daily business was in Sanskrit. Now, some American professor teaches us ...

Sindh is derived from the word Sindhu, strictly a word for river in Sanskrit but also used interchangeably for the Indus ...

Audrey Truschke’s single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Here are eight books to understand yoga philosophy and step-by-step asanas in detail: Yoga is an ancient Indian practice that ...

Centuries-old Marathi stories reveal that India’s savannas have existed much longer than commonly believed, challenging assumptions that they are degraded former forests.

With its origins dating back to 1912, Rammala Library is a little-known repository of more than 12,000 books and 9,000 rare manuscripts. But it has long been neglected, and many invaluable texts might ...

New research into centuries-old Marathi poetry is overturning a powerful myth about India’s landscapes, revealing that the ...

Cinema, which arrived in Tamil Nadu in the 1930s as a modern, technology-driven art form, was used with remarkable ...