Shashank Shekhar Sinha‘s series of books on the ancient marvels of India is making waves. A true account of history is a key way to battle fake news too, he says.

The set of 349 gems, returned to India after more than a century, connects the grandeur of ancient Buddhist heritage with the ...

Madhes is the evolved form of the Sanskrit word Madhyadesh or the Pali term Majjhim Desh, signifying the Middle Land.

Mahseer, once rulers of fast-flowing rivers, are vanishing in Bangladesh due to habitat loss, neglect, and short-term human choices. Yet the real tragedy is not just their disappearance, but that we n ...

India commemorates a defining moment in its democratic history as three northeastern states mark another year of statehood.

If the Saivite revival was the fierce, indigenous gust that broke the cold austerity of Jain-Buddhist asceticism, the ...

When 38-year-old Pradeep Kumar Bishwokarma was growing up in Ramgadhawa, a neighborhood in southern Nepal’s industrial town of Birgunj, he would jump into the Sirsiya River to beat the summer heat as ...

At the Raibaar-7 programme in Delhi, NSA Ajit Doval spoke about the cultural and emotional significance of “Raibaar” for the ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

Archaeological investigations along Maharashtra's Konkan coast have dramatically extended India's timeline for human artistic ...

One of the world’s most remarkable—and little known—empires comes to life in south India with new heritage tours. Built in the 11th century, Gangaikondacholisvaram Temple, in Tamil Nadu, India, is one ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.