In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Audrey Truschke’s single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian ...

Indian perfume history is an unbroken narrative stretching over four millennia, woven into art, ritual, and medicine from the ...

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

Soaring temperatures are expected to damage heritage structures, often built from lime, stone and timber. These buildings ...

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 ...

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 ...