Unlike that opening sentence, Ancient India: Living Traditions is a very respectful and carefully managed show of religious art by the British Museum in which, quite honestly, the stirring ...

after an initial section about India’s mysterious ancient nature spirits. Their appearance, as represented in stone sculptures and commonplace terracotta images, was adopted and adapted by ...

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...

Carved from solid rock with incredible precision, the Barabar Caves challenge what we know about ancient engineering and technology in India. Donald Trump blasts Putin—"What the hell happened to ...

Opinions expressed are those of the author. In the heart of India’s ancient wisdom lies an orchestration of cosmic principles, ethical conundrums and pragmatic strategies that have guided ...

His new book is "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World," and William Dalrymple joins us now from Houston on his U.S. book tour. Thanks so much for being with us. WILLIAM ...

(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 Age of Bhaarat has been revealed by Tara Gaming Ltd, an Indian gaming studio that is aiming to bring Indian tales to the AAA gaming space. It is a studio comprised of some heavy hitters ...

Meanwhile, Natyashastra, penned by ancient sage Bharat Muni, forms the bedrock of performing arts in India. A synthesis of drama, dance, music, aesthetics and psychology, the treatise remains relevant ...

RS Sharma wrote in his seminal work, ‘Shudras in Ancient India’: “In point of time the Purusa Sukta version may be ascribed to the end of the period of the Atharva veda, in which it occurs ...

While several systems of time measurement ... ancient Indian texts, most, use the nimesha as the smallest unit. This unit is defined as the time required for the winking of an eye. In ancient ...

PEDDA RUSHIKONDA, INDIA—Archaeologists from the Andhra Pradesh State Department of Archaeology and Museums were summoned to a beach in Pedda Rushikonda to evaluate an unusual object protruding ...