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 ...

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...

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India’s brilliant contributions to science and culture often flew under the radar, thanks to a mix of colonial neglect and ...

A miniature painting has set a new world record for the most expensive classical Indian artwork. The piece, attributed to Basawan, one of Mughal emperor Akbar's favourite artists, sold at Christie's ...

In early 90s, most documentaries in India were about science, or the evolution of life on earth. Some about ancient history of humans. Thirty years later, the audience as well as content producers ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

Marathi scholar Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande established Marris College of Music in 1926 in Uttar Pradesh for the benefit ...

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The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham hosted a free Indian classical music concert in collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony, on Friday, Aug. 2. The event, was held at the largest Hindu temple in the U ...