Hindu society is the only significant society in the world today which presents a continuity of cultural existence and functioning since...

The creation of a sacred geography for India was always a major instrument of her cultural integration. Not only the countless teerthas,...

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th...

India led the fashion industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Indian cotton fabric and design motifs swept the known...

There are many civilizations in the world where respect for women and their role in society are prominent, and others where regard for...

I lived in the Nilgiri hills of western Tamil Nadu for over two decades, and as a beautiful tropical rainforest—a Shola, as it is...

Since the time Sri Krshna spoke the Gita on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, it has remained one of the most important foundational texts...

“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks...

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination." - Ludwig Wittgenstein Marinating in the aftertaste of...

Indian civilization and culture, many-faceted and infinitely involved by nature, lend themselves to the most contrary interpretations,...

If I were to picture myself as a twenty-year-old Indian today, my answer to this question would have to be a harsh one. I would have to...

Hinduism is the world’s largest ecology-based religion that recognises and seeks the Divine in nature and acknowledges everything as...

Author of more than 500 books, Vedic and Buddhist scholar Prof LOKESH CHANDRA, president, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, was...

How the two-dimensional structure of Sanskrit could have led to the creation of the periodic table. It is an amusing fact that the...

It was primarily under colonial Christian rule that the caste system as we know it today was defined, shaped and a narrative built around...

“Like Bible, Quran, Torah – what is the religious book for Hindus?” – I am sure many of you would have been asked this question. I...

Princeton University Professor Manjul Bhargava, is the first mathematician of Indian-origin to win the Fields Medal, the highest badge of...