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For many Hindus, mid-January is the time for India’s winter harvest celebrations. A seasonal observance that is also religiously...

Sunita Narain is an environmentalist and director general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Sharing her perspective with...

This land has suffered a great deal. From the barbaric fanatic medieval warlords to the sophisticated modern diabolical colonialists to...

Owing to the spirit of renunciation that runs them all, the way of life which the Indian doctrines prescribe may be characterized as...

China and India are both ancient civilizations with splendid history and culture as well as friendly neighbors connected by mountains and...

Liang Qichao (1873-1929) was perhaps the first Chinese scholar to pay attention to the influence of Buddhist literature on Chinese...

The subject of local self-government in ancient India is of both historical and practical — if not political — interest. Village...

In this blog, I would like to tell you the story of carbon steel and the India connection. Carbon steel is the most used engineering...

In applying the Vedic principles to our lives, the way we view politics and the system of leadership we choose will also be affected....

The word “soft power” was first coined by Harvard scholar Joseph Nye. He described this term as the ability to attract and co-opt, rather...

In his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today talked about Jonas Masetti of Brazil who is also known as...

In the United States of America today, the Republicans and Democrats are deeply polarized into an “Us” versus “Them” divide that does not...

Being raised in a Hindu tradition whose religious customs centered primarily around bhakti yoga, the practice of connecting to the Divine...

While the north and central India was practicing Nagara and its varieties and south India was practicing Dravida style, the Deccan region...

Under the watchful gaze of Mao Zedong’s portrait, hundreds of tourists hold up selfie sticks, snapping pictures as they queue to pass...

Whilst much of India is still re-discovering her past, the Lithuanian Foreign Secretary, Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, is the latest Western...

Any lay observer would say that India is chaotic and buzzing with activity all the time – yet at an aggregate level the pace of...

How we are free in a world of natural laws and order is one of the deepest mysteries of our lives. The Vedas provide a subtle resolution...

Sanskrit is the life-line of India. There is a harmonious blend of the sacred and philosophy in Indian culture because it is based on the...

Ask any child in India, who is the first astronomer, he would say Aryabhata I (born 476 CE). However, globally, the answer to this...