Predating Hinduisim, theyyam is an ancient and mysterious folk ritual, and one of South India's most mesmerising ... are traditionally performed only by men and we accept it.

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 ...

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 ...

IT is not an easy task to write a popular introduction to the history of ancient India. A race, destitute of the historical sense, has left few records of early events save poems and dreary ...

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 ...

Kabbadi is already included in the Asian Games, and in the most recent, in 2018, India could come only third, behind Iran, the gold medallists, and South Korea. But for popularising an ancient ...