Rajani LaRocca, a Newbery Honor–winning author and practicing primary care physician, will release her first young adult ...

Along the coast of Sri Lanka lie five Shiva temples that Tamil legend says are the homes of the god of destruction, Shiva. Known as the Pancha Ishwaram, which means the five abodes in Tamil, these ...

The Ramayana, one of India’s most revered epics, has traditionally centered around the heroics of Rama. Yet, its women characters, Sita, Mandodari, Shurpanakha, and others, carry equally powerful ...

What if Valmiki did not write the first Ramayana? What if the story of Lord Ram had previously been written by a holy devotee in a way so pure and potent that even the great sage bowed to it? This is ...