Marriage, as a social institution, has undergone numerous transformations across the world, and India is no exception. In ...

Instead, I delve into what our literary texts can tell us about how ancient Indian society treated unions of all kinds. Raja Ravi Varma’s painting of King Dushyanta proposing marriage to Shakuntala.

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its ...

Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council who first pitched the idea of a stitched ship, ...

That’s where ancient sages came up with ... another community because most marriages in India are arranged. But because my father had a love marriage, my mother belonged to a different community.

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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 ...

Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. But back then, marriage had little to do with love or with ...

The age of marriage has been rising in urban India. Sociologists, anthropologists, and demographers identify several key reasons for this increase in age at marriage, including women’s education ...

In an era where global upheaval dominates headlines, Indian filmmaker Girish Malik is stepping forward with an ambitious docu-drama that aims to offer ancient ... composing for India’s 75th ...