Bollywood icon Sanjay Dutt once shared a startling revelation from a pandit about his past life as a king in the Ashoka ...

When we think of ancient India, images of grand temples, philosophical discourse, and flourishing trade often come to mind. However, behind the splendor of the Mauryan Empire—the first empire to unify ...

Ashoka, by Patrick Olivelle (Yale). This incisive biography aims to separate the historical Ashoka, who ruled a vast swath of the Indian subcontinent in the third century B.C., from the one of legend.

While many Indian rulers in history built vast kingdoms within the subcontinent, only a few of them managed to extend their kingdom beyond the Indian borders. Among them, Rajendra I Chola stands apart ...

Madikeri: The original religion of the native inhabitants of India is Buddhism, and Lord Buddha is our original teacher. We ...