“If a country like India – that sees itself as an ancient and strong country, and as a model of democracy – puts Nepali territories in its map and hangs the map in parliament, it cannot be ...

Its eastern border is somewhere in “India” (“many amazing trees” and “swarms of dangerous snakes”), perhaps modern Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, depending on your map. Climate renders human ...

Another day in science, another massive, ancient snake discovery ... Beyond reptiles, the fossil find carries broader clues to India’s climate tens of millions of years ago.

(Xi Jinping’s reaction was not recorded.) William Dalrymple does not deploy that Sanskrit phrase in “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.” But his audacious book’s aim ...

The largest volcanic eruption in human history resulted in a few years of warm weather, according to an analysis of ancient sediments, and not a severe volcanic winter as some researchers had thought.