Now popping up in upscale restaurants, the carb-loaded national dish recently earned a spot on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage ...

India is no different. Structural and everyday discrimination faced by the country’s minority Muslim population is well documented across legal, political and social spheres. Critics and oppositional ...

Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist This is an ancient tale first narrated in the Vedic corpus. The sun-god Surya is ...

From ancient times, India has witnessed the arrival of peoples such as the India became a haven for those who wished to make it their abode. They were not only accommodated but also assimilated. The ...

The world’s third-largest religion, Hinduism has at least 1.2 billion adherents across the globe, mainly concentrated in India. When many think of India or Hinduism, they think of yoga, spicy ...

Indian citizens may have felt less than divine when, just three days later, Mr Modi arrived to inaugurate the AI Impact ...

NEW YORK, NY – A rare and sacred collection of ancient Buddhist relics, believed to be linked to the cremated remains of the Buddha, has returned to India more than a century after it was first ...

Sita and Urmila - Unheard Conversations is a mythic socio-political drama drawn from the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, re-imagined through the unheard voices of two women, questioning duty, sacrifice, ...

Pattachitra is a traditional painting style from Odisha and West Bengal. The word “patta” means cloth, and “chitra” means picture. These paintings are made on cloth prepared with natural materials.The ...

Rivers and lakes form a sacred geography in the South Indian state of Kerala, where travellers can trace waterways that have been shaping myths, legends and religious practices for millennia.

Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

Across India, food is rarely just food. It is memory, geography, identity and, often, devotion served on a plate. At a thought-provoking panel discussion on food, myths and mythology, author and ...