NEW DELHI (AP) – The Sikh faith has roughly 27 million followers worldwide, and the vast majority live in India. Here are some answers about the religion and its history. Q: How did the Sikh religion ...

The Panchatantra is possibly the second-most circulated book ever (behind the Bible). Shiva and Krishna became popular gods only after the Vedic period, displacing Indra, Varuna and Soma. Along with ...

Most of the chapters in the present volume derive from discussions held at a workshop entitled "Rum and Hind: relations and shared experiences of conquest, acculturation and Turkish rule in pre-modern ...

When coconut farmers in India’s Tamil Nadu state stumbled across a stone covered in strange inscriptions, it’s unlikely they expected it to be a groundbreaking find in Indian Jewish history. However, ...

In India, Bollywood – as rightly described and named by Helle Ryslinge in her film makes cinema that is often ‘larger than life.’ Chhaava, yet another Bollywood release about a ‘righteous Hindu king’ ...

Sandhya Fuchs receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Swiss National Fund On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a ...