NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road ...

As a scholar of South Asian religions, I argue that a mindfulness technique called “nishkama karma” – acting without desire – described in an ancient but popular Indian text called the ...

It is the latest front in a cultural war over India’s ancient past. The country’s ... along with the absence of a Rosetta Stone-like text showing its symbols in translation, are among the ...