The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The heroines of Shilapadikaram and Kundalakesi are daughters of rich merchants.

Glory to Ram’ is the leitmotif of culture here. Here kings had proudly sought to imbibe the virtues symbolised by Ram by ...

Instead she looked to the internet, writes journalist Leah Sottile in her new book, Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False ...

TL;DR: 2,000 years later, human choices still matter most. One recent rainy afternoon, I found myself in an unexpected ...

Couples seeking children are among those who bring offerings and pray at the One Pillar Pagoda, an 11th-century Buddhist site ... and communicate with their warriors, and we admire an array ...

China may ban US movies in retaliation to Donald Trump's recent tariffs, at least according to political commentators.

The Greek Buddhist monk Nyanadassana has been a senior monk of the ancient Buddhist Theravada tradition for 37 years in Sri ...

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Unlike Chinese culture, Taghbach culture had long known women warriors who could ride horses ... cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from India ...