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Rakshābandhan: festival for whose protection, exactly?
Rakshābandhan, a festival celebrated in North India on the Purnimā of Shrāwan month, has attracted the attention of all sorts of people...
Stressed Chinese Professionals Seek Solace in Sanskrit
Burned-out corporate workers in the city of Hangzhou, sometimes known as the e-commerce capital of China, are turning to the Dharma for...
STYLE Edit: how has artist Xu Bing’s calligraphy brought Shanghai Tang’s ‘Created by Chinese’ vision
Shanghai Tang, the luxury fashion house celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has collaborated with world-renowned Chinese artist...
Reclaiming our Glory- Part I: How did we lose our global trade share?
Throughout the recorded history, much before the industrial revolution, starting from the Maurya Empire in 200 BC until the 1700s,...
5,000 Pilgrims A Day, No Restrictions On Faith: India To Pak On Kartarpur
NEW DELHI: India is expected to raise several issues during the talks The first level of talks were held on March 14 Kartarpur Sahib is...
Talking Threads - A story of Indian embroidery
Heritage manifests itself in many things, in art, music, folk theater, paintings, sculptures, crafts, architecture, food, design of...
Swami Vivekananda-a philosopher, spiritual leader, orator; nation pays tribute on his death annivers
A philosopher, a spiritual leader, an orator, a Hindu monk and one of the greatest thinkers, Swami Vivekananda was known for many things...
Water Harvesting in Ancient India was far Advanced than Present; Here is how
Were floods and drought regular occurrences in ancient India? Of course a big Yes! But ancient Indians implemented effective solution to...
Genesis of a Research on influence of Sanskrit on Indo European Languages
The other day, a reader asked me: "Wim, how did your migration hypothesis originally begin? You once told me, that it began back in...
How Chinese Opera Festival can save Cantonese opera’s lesser known art forms from vanishing
Among the rich and diverse traditions and schools of Chinese opera, Cantonese opera is arguably one of its most well-known art forms...
How ancient is yoga? Seals recovered from Indus valley civilisation sites tell a fascinating story
A Tibetan monastery in north India, 1985: Harvard scholar Herbert Benson and his team visited this monastery, high in the Himalayas. They...
From Vedic era to modern fabrics: The fascinating journey of Indian textiles
From silk strands found in jewellery excavated from Harappa and Chanhu-daro, and a cotton fragment found attached to a metal tool in...
Buddha and Yoga can bring India China closer" - Tarun Vijay at Sichuan university, China
17th June 2019, Chengdu - Shri. Tarun Vijay, RSS thinker and former BJP MP said at a Sichuan university speech before Senior professors...
International Yoga Day: Yoga as a Science of Consciousness
In Vedic and yogic thought Consciousness is the supreme reality, not matter, energy or mind. Consciousness is all-pervasive like space,...
The lost Sanskrit treasures of Tibet
When Ye Shaoyong, a prominent Chinese Sanskrit scholar, first came across the old yellowed palm leaves from Drepung, one of Tibet's most...
3 Ways to Identify Cultural Differences on a Global Team
In almost any business these days, you are guaranteed to interact with people whose cultural background is quite different from your own....
Spotlight on Peking opera: Chinese Opera Festival celebrates centuries-old ‘national’ art form
While Cantonese opera has become a hot topic – since April’s satirical Cantonese opera in Hong Kong, Trump on Show, detailing the life of...
Kumārajīva and the Middle Way in China
Most people are surprised when told that Indian Gāndhārī and Khotan Saka were the main languages of Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, from the...
India’s Right to Cultural Self-Determination
Countries are not just economic administrative spaces—they are homes to unique cultures and societies, which justify their existences...
The tale of taels
An exhibition showcases the evolution of silver as a predominant currency in imperial China. Silver was used as money in China for...
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