R ARELY CAN a spoonful of rice have caused such a stir. When M.K. Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, addressed the south Indian state’s legislature on September 9th, he celebrated a musty sample of ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

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India is the homeland of temples; you can find them in every nook and corner. But did you know that even today, you can see ...

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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 ...

Indian genetic history is heterogeneous, multifaceted, complex, and unique relative to the population structures of other regions, such as East Asia (characterized by a tendency toward ethnic ...

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