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 ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd ...

Hinduism has a beautiful myth about the origins of love. In the beginning, there was a superbeing called Purusha. This being was without desire, craving, fear, or indeed the impulse to do anything at ...

I played an hour of “Raji: An Ancient Epic” before I stopped and restarted. While it’s not uncommon for players to reboot a game after learning its basic controls, that wasn’t what made me want to ...