History and mythology come to life in the legendary lost city of Hampi. Once the powerhouse of an ancient kingdom and an auspicious...

I thought I was joining a simple Yoga class for three months. Little did I know that these three months would become life-defining,...

1) Navaratri celebrates the Feminine Divine A nine-night festival during the Hindu month of Ashwin, Navaratri is a celebration of the...

New Jersey Akshardham, the world’s largest modern Hindu temple outside India, is set to open on Sunday. Globally, the temple in New...

One of the 19 stupas constructed with Lord Buddha's relics sent by Emperor Ashoka to China has been discovered in this isolated Tibetan...

An article on how techniques from the Chola era inspired Anand Malligavad to ease a water challenge in urban India had me intrigued. In...

This work by 19th-century painters Fei Yigeng and Zhang Xiong depicts Chang'e cuddling the jade rabbit amid flower-laden plum branches...

More people turn to ancient pastime to improve health, mindfulness Over the summer, a number of mass public yoga events were held across...

The G20 Summit in Delhi took place earlier this month, it is still making headlines for a number of reasons. The Summit and its location...

Is it possible to carve a universe of detail on a slab of stone? Artistic imagination and skill are indeed capable of doing so. But...

On Wednesday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) said that many concepts commonly attributed to Western...

Chennai in the 1980s might have seemed an unlikely place to sample kvass and kimchi. Yet for one evening every year the Russian drink...

Since the dawn of our species, humans have been marvelling at the celestial scenes emerging in the night-sky. Among these phenomena is...

Techno India University in Kolkata witnessed a rare convergence of minds and ideals when Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy attended the...

The British Museum in London and the Grand Louvre in Paris are among the world's largest institutions. Each museum is approximately...

Tickets to see the boy band TFBOYS perform in China have sold out in less than a second, as scalpers are selling front-row seats for a...

Five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the vocalised equivalent of oceanic silence, at the inauguration of the Metropolitan...

The Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum, located in the heart of the nation's capital, is slated to become the largest museum in the...

Reshmi Dasgupta My mother had an extensive collection of Ganeshas of different sizes, shapes and material; so did my mother-in-law. They...

Over sixty percent of young Chinese would contemplate a career as a wanghong (influencer), a broad term in China that includes vloggers,...