Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he ...

Gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world practically force authors to construct their arguments with doubtful materials. So much has been lost, and what sources remain must be handled with care and ...

Derived from the Sanskrit word "jina," meaning "to conquer," Jainism teaches that all life forms have an eternal soul bound by karma in a never-ending cycle of rebirth. Through nonviolence or ahimsa, ...

Patna, April 8: The BJP today equated Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Emperor Asoka, both of whose writ "ran all over the world", and demanded that Patna be renamed Pataliputra, the ancient capital of ...

Rendering songs in a language that has never been used for millenia is quite a task. No musical history to look back or the raga, ie, melodic framework in Indian classical music to fall back upon in ...

For years, the remains lay unnoticed in the midst of the bustling city of Meerut. At first glance, there was nothing distinctive about it — so much so that a part of it was destroyed when a power ...