We all think we know the story of India’s history, right? The Indus Valley Civilization, the Vedic texts, the Maurya Empire—these are the classic benchmarks. These are the things you learned in school ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

R ARELY CAN a spoonful of rice have caused such a stir. When M.K. Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, addressed the south Indian state’s legislature on September 9th, he celebrated a musty sample of ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies ...

Buddhism has produced a cultural legacy more glorious than most great faiths. Initially spreading throughout Asia, over the centuries it triumphed not by the might of military conquest but by virtue ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – One of India’s top-selling authors, Anand Neelakantan, with more than 13 books to his credit including the Bahubali trilogy — ‘The Rise of Sivagami’, ‘Chaturanga’ and ‘Queen of ...

Indian perfume history is an unbroken narrative stretching over four millennia, woven into art, ritual, and medicine from the ...