Ancient Indian civilisation did not merely create knowledge. It developed ways to retain that knowledge within society, ...

Around 1500 BCE, the Indo-European people known as the Arya migrated into western India, blending with local populations to ...

The sounds of a harp-like instrument called the yazh, named for the mythological animal Yali whose image was carved into its stem, once filled the halls of temples and royal courts in southern India.

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 or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...

In the heart of India’s ancient wisdom lies an orchestration of cosmic principles, ethical conundrums and pragmatic strategies that have guided civilization for millennia. The Vedas, Purāṇas and the ...

Last week, a weird story popped to national prominence in India. The new chief minister of Tripura, a small state that borders Bangladesh, said that the internet existed during the ancient times, back ...

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