The Brahmastra is often described as a divine weapon, yet many ancient texts hint at a power comparable to or even greater ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition Only a few years ago, things did not seem to be going well for India’s various alphabets, often known as the Indic or Brahmic scripts ...

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This is the second part of an ongoing series, which traces the origins of India’s people and civilization. The first part can be found here: Unraveled: Where Indians Come From, Part 1. As discussed in ...

Just this past June, at a national meeting of various Hindu organizations in India, a popular preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, suggested that those who consumed beef should be publicly hanged. Later, at ...

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues ...