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Lord Hanuman, one of India's most revered deities, will serve as the official mascot for the Asian Athletics Championships beginning here...

The first Parliament of the World's Religions started at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 11, 1893, near Lake Michigan. In a...

About 150 Indian artefacts would be returned to the country by the United States in the next six months, according to a senior official....

In a highly anticipated event for Hindu devotees, the Amarnath Yatra commenced on July 1, 2023, marking the beginning of a 62-day...

Guru Purnima, a revered festival among Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists, is dedicated to honouring gurus or teachers. This day holds immense...

That the Vijayanagara empire prevented Dakshinapatha from suffering the same fate as Uttarapatha at the hands of the Turushka invaders is...

Yoga is a gift from India to the world. On June 21st, 2023, as the world celebrates International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was born in an India which was very different to the one he left. The Mughal empire was at its peak, the...

The year was 1895. Under a moonlit night of Madras summer, a few people had gathered to hear a young sanyassin from a distant land. In...

A stone image of Vaikuntha Vishnu, a terracotta plaque of Gaja Laxmi, a stone image of Ganesha, seals and coins among other valuable...

Today the entire nation speaks about the 'Sengol'. Crudely and only for the sake of convenience, it is translated into 'sceptre'. But...

Irecently returned from a month in India. It was exhilarating, transformative, illuminating and sublime. It was exhausting, maddening,...

Kirtan — the process of connecting to the Divine through the congregational singing of sacred mantras — has, for the most part, been a...

We celebrated the International Day of Families on May 15. The increasing cases of murders of live-in partners, news items about family...

Liang Qichao (1873-1929) was perhaps the first Chinese scholar to pay attention to the influence of Buddhist literature on Chinese...

About 200 stolen rare artefacts recovered from abroad are going to be showcased in the upcoming Museum Expo 2023 in the Capital. The...

ONE OF THE UGLIEST SIGHTS that assaults the senses on a daily basis in urban India is the mass insanity called artificial hair colouring....

Culture evolves. It changes with time in its form, expression, interpretation, distribution and consumption. Our crafts, cuisine,...

On the eve of World Heritage Day a.k.a. International Day of Monuments and Sites on April 18, I found myself in soulful Sanchi, about an...

Twitter was awash last week with merriment and rueful bafflement when a user posted a photograph of the menu of an Indian restaurant,...