While a ceremonial fusillade of firecrackers sounded outside, a black-capped Brahmin pandit recited Sanskrit prayers last week in a factory conference hall at Poona, outside Bombay. It was the time of ...

J K Dadoo writes that ancient India, through trade, religion and knowledge networks, shaped global civilisation as the world’s central intellectual and philosophical power ...

Indra, the Vedic god of rain and thunder, was once the supreme ruler of the heavens. Wielding his mighty vajra (thunderbolt), he was celebrated in the Rigveda for slaying the serpent-demon Vritra, ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...

In the heart of India’s ancient wisdom lies an orchestration of cosmic principles, ethical conundrums and pragmatic strategies that have guided civilization for millennia. The Vedas, Purāṇas and the ...

India's Largest Circular Labyrinth Links Ancient Rome to the East. Archaeologists have unveiled India's largest circular labyrinth, a remarkable 15-circuit stone structure measuri ...

The Brahmastra is often described as a divine weapon, yet many ancient texts hint at a power comparable to or even greater than modern nuclear technology. References in the Mahabharata and Ramayana ...

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Discovery Project: Crises of Leadership in the Eastern Roman Empire, 250-1000 CE. nothing to disclose Michael B. Charles ...

The British Museum in London has often been accused of cultural imperialism and colonialism, particularly by the U.K.’s ethnic minorities. There is a bitter dispute about many famous pieces acquired ...