NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India's most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical music ...

They're all colorful historical nicknames that different cultures have given the powerful spice asafetida—known as hing ...

Centuries of texts composed in Marathi, a language primarily spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, challenge a long-held narrative about the tropical savannas there. Instead of being ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Happiness Ancient Indian Wisdom for a Restless Age Jahnvi Borgohain looks at a variety of approaches to happiness. Across ...

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

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

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

Whether it’s lyrical movements, classical Indian style or a hip-hop take on the wildly popular Bollywood genre, dance is, without a doubt, one of the great visual icons of India. “I think dance is ...

The Indian government has said that over the long term, its climate policies will help prevent further damage to heritage sites such as the Taj Mahal.

Soaring temperatures are expected to damage heritage structures, often built from lime, stone and timber. These buildings ...

India is actively pursuing a decolonisation agenda, moving beyond English's historical dominance. This initiative, championed ...