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A Civilisation That Took Love Seriously In today’s hyper-digitized world of dating apps, seen-zones, and breadcrumbing, the ...
In today’s world of overindulgence, the ancient Indian practice of Brahmacharya ... from Within According to yogic texts, semen (for men) and ovum (for women) are not just reproductive fluids ...
At a recent protest in Ranchi, the capital of eastern Jharkhand state, men and women sat ... remote parts of eastern India to persuade converts to return to their ancient faith.
His 12th book The Golden Road, published this September, is his first crack at ancient India. Dalrymple’s ­argument is that ancient India’s influence—religious, economic, scholarly and ...
an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural conquest of the globe. This “Sufi teaching story” about the blind men and the elephant was in effect converted to Islam from Buddhism ...
What the two men found when they visited the site ... Excerpted with permission from The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple, and published recently by ...
For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual ... traditionally performed by men from marginalised ...
One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...