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India celebrated her 77th Republic Day on Monday, with the parade also marking 150 years of Vande Mataram, the iconic anthem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ...

Kaundinya is part of a wider strategic government soft power project to revive the country’s maritime legacy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A group of nearly 250 performers took the stage Saturday for one of the largest student organization-run events at the University of Missouri, India Nite. The Cultural Association of India held its ...

Innovations such as chess, the concept of zero, and the idea that the Earth moved around the Sun all came from India, not Greece or Egypt, author William Dalrymple has written in his new book, "The ...

Bestselling historian Dalrymple (The Anarchy) brings a lifetime of scholarship to bear on this magisterial and energetic account, which “aims to highlight India’s often forgotten position as a crucial ...

Centuries of history will come to life at the 33rd annual India Nite celebration. The event, organized by the University of Missouri’s Cultural Association of India is themed “Ancient India: The ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far East, ...

Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu have unearthed an 8ft iron spear, the longest from India's Iron Age, from Thirumalapuram. Found ...

Following an overwhelming response in Kochi & Coimbatore, a ground-breaking cultural initiative celebrating India's mystical ...