It is indeed a paradox that Indians are obsessed with history and historical questions and yet completely oblivious to how that history is written. In other words, there is a comp ...

A newly identified dinosaur fossil from Brazil is offering fresh clues about how ancient animals once moved across continents ...

Every year, as Mahashivaratri approaches, an ancient rhythm returns across India. Temples remain open throughout the day, bells ring past midnight, devotees fas ...

Do all Indian languages share a Sanskrit origin? The Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar theory says yes. This critique examines its ...

Jewish India is over 2000 years old. Historical Hindu India was and is today almost entirely devoid of the oldest institutionalized hatred on earth, antisemitism.  Deeply distressing to Jews worldwide ...

Danino has created a substantial and qualitative scholarly legacy in his own lifetime and continues quietly on his chosen path away from public glare, any temptations of celebrity ...

Dr Phanikant Mishra said that discovering pre-Mauryan and pre-Christian era evidence can push back Balirajgarh’s history, shed light on early Indian civilisations ...

Tamil Nadu is the graveyard of national political parties. It buried the Congress at its peak then in 1967. The BJP, also at ...

The author of Tolkappiyam, Tolkappiyar, may be regarded as one of the earliest anthropologists of the ancient world.

Ancient inscriptions carved into Egyptian tombs reveal a visitor from India. One name appears again and again inside the ...

A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago. New research analysing ...

How old is Indian civilization, and can it even be described as a single civilization at all? This episode traces the deep history of South Asia - from the Indus Valley Civilization and ancient ...