Where it had previously been "enigmatically abstract", it started to become "incredibly accomplished at portraying the human ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

Whether it's through ancient trade, spiritual exchange, or migration, Indian influence has quietly shaped the societies of ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...

Exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art dating back two thousand years. Curator Sushma Jansari speaks to Deepak Patel, about the project. We use cookies to give you the ...

The Mauryan Empire stands as a pivotal chapter in ancient Indian history, renowned for its significant administrative ...

Jansari says that, for her, this commonality is expressed most articulately through devotional art that goes back to the ancient roots ... an early Buddhist shrine dating back to the third century ...

Now, for the first time ever, the Ministry of Culture is planning an exposition of these relics of Lord Buddha that were ...

The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese ... that animals and animal-related imagery play in Asian art, from Indian statues to Japanese scrolls. Those who wish to ...

Meenakshi Raghavan is possibly the oldest woman in the world to practise and teach Kalaripayattu An 82-year-old woman who teaches the ancient Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu says she has no ...

An 82-year-old woman who teaches the ancient Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu says she ... Legend has it that around the 6th Century, Indian Buddhist monk Bodhidharma introduced these ...