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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was not the first to recognize the periodicity of the chemical elements or even to construct a primitive...

India is perhaps the only civilization of the ancient world that turned knowledge into Goddess. It was, in any case, regarded as sacred...

December 21st is the Winter Solstice, when we have the shortest day and the longest night. It is the day of great significance to the...

Across Asia, most private homes maintain a firm shoes-off rule. In Hong Kong, encountering a towering mound of assorted footwear outside...

India has always been known as a ‘knowledge society’. Derived from the verbal root ‘vid’ meaning ‘to know’, the Vedas as ‘shruti’, are...

The history of India dates back to the earliest times of human civilization. Unlike the great dynasties of ancient Egypt and China, the...

Mahatma Gandhi is one leader who sparks so much passion and attracts so much attention even after 150 years of his birth and 71 years...

Butter may make everything better, according to the French. However, it is Irish butter that rules the world. This year, Kerrygold, one...

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things ~ Chaim Pot. So, where did the culture of drinking tea start? While...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government plans to build a massive statue of Bodhidharma at Kancheepuram and promote a Buddhist pilgrimage...

Existence lies both, in the Gross and the Subtly profound.  In Matter and the Quantum. When Vibration happens in the subtle, matter and...

An international report on Ayurveda trends conducted by Market Research Future (MRFR) this year predicts that the global Ayurveda market...

We came across these two beautiful Venugopalas in Japan. There I thought you may be curious to know that Hindu deities are worshipped...

In 1999, I read the Tamil historical novel Sivakaamiyin Sabatham. Set in the seventh century CE, the novel tells of the siege of...

Prior to unearthing of the Kaali idol, Dr Alexander Kozhevin, Reader of Ulyanovsk State University’s archaeology department, has already...

Baolis, also known as baoris or vavs, are man-made step-wells that were constructed to serve as underground water resources. These...

Aryavart! Bharat!! India!!! There is a huge difference between all three terminologies that describe our nation. Gone were the days when...

Mark Twain, the famous American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer has rightly said ,"India is the cradle of the human race,...

Veda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice. It is that simple. They are two sides of the same truth. Yoga not only leads us to Veda, but...

There are many who see India’s recent election results as a repudiation of the textbook idea of India. They find the results painful, as...