Siddharta renounced everything to take up the life of a wandering ascetic. Six years later, he attained enlightenment while ...

In India, on side routes of the Silk Road that crossed the passes to the Indus Valley and beyond, the older religion of Brahmanism had given way to Hinduism and Buddhism; the former never spread far ...

Criterion (vi): The Ellora Caves not only bear witness to three great religions, i.e. Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Jainism, they illustrate the spirit of tolerance, characteristic of ancient India, which ...

Babus of Nayanjore This is a story about the landlords of Nayanjore, “the Babus”, who lived extravagant lives before the ...

Wrapped in the aura of ghosts, Brahmanism and Buddhism, Kham Chanot is reborn, emerging as what one might call a “cultural artefact”. The arrival of outsiders kindles a flux of ideas ...

Over the years, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has displayed a fluctuating stance on the issue of reservations.

It wants to re-write the history of India along the lines of RSS mythology about a Hindu Rashtra which privileges Hindus and Brahmanism above all else and defines the followers of all other faiths ...

At times when resistance is a necessity and discussion on injustices is a priority, Neelam Cultural Centre’s Vaanam Art ...

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra (RBSO) will perform a royal tribute concert featuring a guest soloist on oboe, in the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on May 10 at ...

His movement, Buddhism, arose in reaction to the increasing remoteness and abstruseness of Vedic Brahmanism. His followers deified him and, accordingly, mythologized his life; and it would be ...