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Ancient Buddhist murals recast in music
Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun stood in awe on his first visit to the Mogao Caves, the famed grottoes filled with ancient...
“Ayurveda can make India the world capital for curing chronic ailments – says MIT and Cambridge Prof
Indian sciences can solve modern medical problems because they recognise the difference between the gross physical level, Sthula, and the...
The Metrology behind Harappan Town-Planning – II
How were Dholavira’s town planners able to impose such a set of precise ratios and dimensions on the ground? Read the final part of...
How China and India shaped global civilisation, well before the West arrived
I write in reference to “The leaders and followers” (May 26), on how Asia has never had an equivalent of the Western civilisation in...
The Metrology behind Harappan Town-Planning – I
How were Dholavira’s town planners able to impose such a set of precise ratios and dimensions on the ground? Read this part 1 of 2-part...
Mom achieves this big feat in China
Boney Kapoor produced Mom achieved another feat by crossing the $ 15 million mark in China within two weeks of its release. The Sridevi...
'Yoga, Taichi can deepen China-India friendship'
Yoga and Taichi, two practices from world's ancient civilisations of India and China, are the best medium for both the countries to...
ASI finds evidence of 4000 years old civilisation at ‘Mahabharat era’ excavation site
Sinauli village in Uttar Pradesh has become an archaeological hotspot for excavations. In a first, the Archeological Survey of India...
“Einstein, Voltaire, Eliot knew India more than Indians” says British Author – Bernie Holt
Indian astronomers flirted with a “Theory of Gravitation” one thousand years earlier than this concept was articulated by Copernicus,...
The scientific Symbolism of the Statue of Shiva Nataraja at CERN, Switzerland
Lord Shiva is one of the most important deities in the Hindu religion. He is known by many names such as Mahadeva, Neelkantha, Rudra,...
Global celebrities who have turned Hindu or have been touched by sanatana dharma
New Delhi: Hinduism is one of the world's major religions with a global following of over 1.032 billion people. The religion that has its...
Dharmasastra-s: Theory and Practice — Local Self- Government, and Elections in Ancient India
The subject of local self-government in ancient India is of both historical and practical — if not political — interest. Village...
Mapping in ancient world: foreigners stated India as rectangular, Puranas as inverted triangle
Mapping needs measure of 3 quantity at keys points on globe - (a) Longitude, (b) Latitude, (c) Direction. These need observing Naksatra...
Names of the Days of the Week
Latin names for the days of the week are quite like Sanskrit names. Starting with Sunday they are named after the Sun (Ravi or Āditya रवि...
Names of the Days of the Week
Latin names for the days of the week are quite like Sanskrit names. Starting with Sunday they are named after the Sun (Ravi or Āditya रवि...
Temple Connection of India's Primary Education : How British destroyed it
On 10 Mar 1826 Thomas Munro, the Governor of Madras Presidency, submitted a detailed Census and a Survey Report to the British...
The Rāma Story and Sanskrit in Ancient Xinjiang
Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below...
Indian Foundations of Modern Science
Scholars see India and Greece as the two principal birthplaces of science. School textbooks tell us about Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid,...
The Ramayana Summary – The Deeds of Rama
Valmiki once was wandering through the forest along the bank of a river, when he noticed a pair of curlews hopping about on the grass,...
Origin and Existence of Devi Saraswati – Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom
While the male form of God (Deva) is associated with strength and protection, most of the female forms have represented sensible...
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