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India, the birthplace of the game of chess, the concept of zero, and the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun, has long been the source of some of humanity's most revolutionary ideas. Yet, as ...

India celebrated her 77th Republic Day on Monday, with the parade also marking 150 years of Vande Mataram, iconic anthem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ...

Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu have unearthed an 8ft iron spear, the longest from India's Iron Age, from Thirumalapuram. Found ...

Kaundinya is part of a wider strategic government soft power project to revive the country’s maritime legacy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A group of nearly 250 performers took the stage Saturday for one of the largest student organization-run events at the University of Missouri, India Nite. The Cultural Association of India held its ...

Centuries of history will come to life at the 33rd annual India Nite celebration. The event, organized by the University of Missouri’s Cultural Association of India is themed “Ancient India: The ...

In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian ...

About 2,000 years ago, art on the Indian subcontinent underwent "a stunning transformation", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. Where it had previously been "enigmatically abstract", it started to ...

Following an overwhelming response in Kochi & Coimbatore, a ground-breaking cultural initiative celebrating India's mystical ...