Despite its waning usage in India, Sanskrit is on the rise in the West. Many premier universities, such as Harvard, Oxford, ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 29,000-year-old child burial in Tham Din Cave, Thailand, marking the oldest known human ...

Is the perception of the Mughal king everyone loves to hate historically informed or a caricature formed by the prejudices of ...

SEATTLE — "Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form" brings more than 400 pieces of original art to Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP), celebrating the breathtaking impact Asian comics have had on ...

68.And finally, this is the oldest photograph ever taken. Nicéphore Niépce took the photo from his window in France in 1826.

Humans have latched onto rhythms and tunes for millennia. Does all this music have an evolutionary purpose or is it just “evolutionary cheesecake”?

With a censorious government, even parody invites censorship in India. This is what happened to the Tamil magazine Ananda ...

Lyrics aren't necessary; the Peanuts cartoon's signature tune ... Sound healing practitioners in India and China, for example, point to ancient traditions of healing and draw correlations between ...

Like any middle-class Indian, government decisions impact me too ... represented the world around us—whether through cave paintings in ancient times or, later, through political cartoons in newspapers ...

A lawn sign at 1038 Asbury tells us to resist, but exactly what should we resist here? The purpose of protest art is to call attention to an event or ...

But what if we told you, there was an ancient sport in India that strips the suggestive showmanship of gymnastics down to tight trunks? Known as the “mother of all ancient Indian sports ...

A BABY BORN on the same day as the Indian republic—January 26th 1950, when the constitution went into effect—probably would not have lived to see the 75th-anniversary celebrations last month.