With its origins dating back to 1912, Rammala Library is a little-known repository of more than 12,000 books and 9,000 rare manuscripts. But it has long been neglected, and many invaluable texts might ...

Sanskrit means 'perfectly made'. It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded ...

Karnataka's Mattur earned the moniker of the first Sanskrit village in India in 1983. Here's how to plan a trip to Mattur the right way.

Sitting Bull was the leading figure in the Lakota resistance during the Great Sioux War. He led the Lakotas and Cheyennes who refused to be confined to a reservation and clung to the traditional life ...

The Bible was commissioned by Borso D’Este, who became duke of Ferrara in northeastern Italy in the mid-1400s. Borso enlisted ...

Painters, patrons of region chose themes taken from demanding Sanskrit mahakavyas, epics, grand Puranas and subtle theories ...

Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras' by Kalpana Karunakaran follows the idea of freedom and rebellion for a 20th-century ...

This comes at a time when poll-bound Tamil Nadu, which has been historically resistant to centralisation, is witnessing ...

Tyler W. Williams reveals how political, cultural and economic forces shaped Hindi publishing in the subcontinent ...