From India's original inhabitants, the Mauryans, to the British, who came as traders but stayed to reshape its history, this ...

Two Guler miniature paintings, one by legendary 18th century Kangra artist Nainsukh and the other by an unknown descendant, fetched a record Rs 31 crore at a recent auction in Mumbai. Painting of ...

The hunt is on for a city's best poet – but writers only have until midnight to put themselves forward for the "once-in-a-life-time opportunity". Syntax Poetry Collective, a committee of ...

Gangadhara’s work also shows us that Sanskrit court poetry was alive and well in the Sultanate-dominated world of 15th-century northern India. Little kings were still using it to legitimise themselves ...

Anandavardhana always regards the epic as the handiwork of a gifted poet with a ... Most of the Sanskrit poets and playwrights who have borrowed from the theme of Ramayana either focus on the earlier ...

Poet David Groff and the cover of his latest book of poetry. David Groff, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and educator, recently released Live in Suspense (Trio House Press), his third ...

Guwahati: A professor from the Sanskrit department of Gauhati University has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for the second time, while a distinguished Assamese poet and a Bodo novelist ...

A translation of mainly Sanskrit poetry, it is full of beauty, humour, and occasional irreverence even. Many might imagine they ‘know’ what San­skrit poetry is ‘like’; this book ...