GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, ...

GUDUTA, India — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, tapping ...

J K Dadoo writes that ancient India, through trade, religion and knowledge networks, shaped global civilisation as the world’s central intellectual and philosophical power ...

NEW YORK (AP) — SOAS University’s Almut Hintze, a professor of Zoroastrianism, has described the global community as “microscopically small” and worries about the decline of Parsis in India. NEW YORK ...

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 ...

RANCHI — Every time Kamle Oraon, 50, shuts her eyes, she sees her mother scraping the bottom of a bowl to feed her four children. “We went hungry most nights,” she says. Many villages in this state in ...

LONDON—Let me start my review of an exquisite exhibition with a small gripe: “Ancient India: living traditions” is saddled with a terrible name. The oh-so-obvious juxtaposition of opposites—of ...

Once the faith of millions, a small but devoted number of adherents in Asia and North America keep the flame of faith burning. Farzin Yezishne, a Zoroastrian mobed (priest), performs a blessing ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday described Hinduism as a philosophy and a comprehensive way of life, rather than merely a religion.

India is a country with ancient wisdom, diverse cultures, and outstanding performances that have influenced human civilisation over millennia. The motherland of the world's religions, India, had a ...