The power of music, according to Hinduism
It was about 12 years ago. I was at my friend’s house half watching him play Halo — a first-person shooter video game — and half fiddling...
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Chinese collection of 500,000 Tibetan Buddhist rock engravings recognised as world’s largest
A world record authentication agency said a collection of 500,000 stones adorned with Buddhist inscriptions in southwest China is the...
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Food served as medicine in India, China for centuries
AHMEDABAD: The Asian cultures – including Indian and Chinese – for centuries tried to understand the functioning of body through its...
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Yogatva is everywhere
Yoga is everywhere in free nations, whether you are in small town or big city, in the Old World or the New World. It is taught and...
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Culture Insider: China's Ghost Festival
The Zhongyuan Festival, also known as Ullambana Festival among Buddhists, falls on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, on Aug...
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Historical Chinese Figures You Should Know: 1,000 Years of Sima Guang
Historian. Writer. Official. Polemicist. Poet. Prodigy. November 17th is the 1,000th anniversary of Song Dynasty scholar Sima Guang, born...
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Singapore & India: An Old Connection
It is well known that Tamil is one of the official languages in Singapore because of the large population of people of Indian origin who...
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Ganesh Chaturthi: The Symbolism Of Ganesha
The material, secular worldview determines one’s success by the number of possessions and property one owns. It measures the success of...
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The oldest surviving Zoroastrian scriptures were found not in Iran or India, but in China
In the United Kingdom, the British Library has an unrivalled collection of Zoroastrian manuscripts and therefore welcomed the opportunity...
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What Cultural Institutions Need To Know About Chinese Cultural Consumers
Jing Daily has released Chinese Cultural Consumers: The Future of Luxury, a report that offers a high-level overview of China’s new class...
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Time to talk about India’s new breed of hobby-tech and culture-tech platforms
India’s folk artists have turned online to teach art forms such as Kalamakari, Kavad, Phad or Madhubani paintings. We chat with artists...
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Shalihotra: He Wrote The Book On Horses
In ancient India, when sages, astronomers and philosophers were trying to figure out the mysteries of life and the universe, one man was...
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History of Vedic Culture in the Middle East
Starting from India and heading to the west, this area had strong contacts with ancient India from many years ago, and is said to have...
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Cambodia’s Ancient Ties With India
The Elephanta Cave complex in Mumbai, ever-popular with tourists, is actually a shrine of the Pashupatas, a lost Shaivite sect whose...
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Indic Approach to the Nature of Human Behaviour
The Basis: The Notability of Understanding Oneself in Indian Thought “Your self-realization is the greatest service you can render the...
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The Types of Knowledge A Man Should Learn – Upanishadic Wisdom On Warsaw University Library Walls
Last week the world woke up to pictures of verses from the Upanishads as part of the symbolism of the building of the University of...
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Indian heritage conservation to get a boost as Centre decides to set up Indian Institute of Heritage
Heritage of India: Heritage has been a key aspect for India and now, to further the cause and importance of the country’s rich heritage,...
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The Amrutheshwara Temple of Amruthapura
The exquisite Amrutheshwara Temple (also known as Amrutesvara) is located in the village of Amruthapura in Chikmagalur district of...
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‘Floating’ bricks, sandbox tech: Engineering skill behind 13th C Telangana temple’s UNESCO tag
It’s not just the exquisite craftsmanship that adorns the Kakatiya Rudreswara Temple, also known as the Ramappa temple, that makes it an...
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Cultural sites in China, India, Iran and Spain inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee today inscribed Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China (China), Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa)...
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