Varanasi: Senior professor in department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at BHU and currently Vice-Chancellor of Nava Nalanda ...

A traveller journeys across Southeast Asia to trace Suvarnabhumi, following ancient Indian sea routes through food, faith, ...

Explore the ancient walled city of Lo Manthang in Upper Mustang, where Tibetan Buddhist heritage, monasteries, and living traditions endure.

The VHP leaders including Giriraj Kishore and the Union Minister, Uma Bharti, quickly jumped to the cause of defending the gods from heretics. Ms. Bharti compared the Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, ...

The European Commission President embraced Indian craftsmanship in a custom creation by Rajesh Pratap Singh. The Banarasi ...

In the summer of 2003, I was reading Gail Omvedt’s Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, which had just been ...

Dating to 1200 BCE, this rice-lentil blend appears in Indus Valley sites and Ayurvedic texts. Greek explorer Seleucus Nicator documented its popularity in 4th century BCE India, and it's a favourite ...

Dani was not just Pakistan’s most influential archaeologist, but also its most insistent storyteller, often called the ...

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NEW DELHI, 25 Jan: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said that, as people increasingly turn to Buddha dhamma globally, India bears a special responsibility to preserve, share, and live its ...

Patna: As India marks its 77th Republic Day on Monday, Bihar’s legacy as the cradle of democracy has come into sharp focus with historians highlightin.

A medieval cataract surgery described in Chinese texts may have its roots in India, a Pune-based historian of science and medicine said during a recent talk in Delhi. Vijaya Jayant Deshpande, speaking ...