The Brahmastra is often described as a divine weapon, yet many ancient texts hint at a power comparable to or even greater ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

Researchers have been scouring centuries-old Indian poetry and folklore to understand the history of the great expanses of grasslands that cover nearly 10% of India and more than a third of the land ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

Did an ancient Indian civilization help give rise to the Pharaohs? Maritime historian Nick Collins believes the Indus-Sarasvati region may have played a hidden but decisive role in shaping Pharaonic ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition Only a few years ago, things did not seem to be going well for India’s various alphabets, often known as the Indic or Brahmic scripts ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd ...

Hinduism has a beautiful myth about the origins of love. In the beginning, there was a superbeing called Purusha. This being was without desire, craving, fear, or indeed the impulse to do anything at ...