Pakistan revives Sanskrit studies with new university courses, plans for Gita and Mahabharata scholarship, and a vision of ...

The Western press, reporting on the rise of Hitler, similarly called the symbol the Hakenkreuz. Faulty translations at the ...

Vande Mataram” is a Sanskrit phrase meaning “I bow to thee, Mother”. It comes from the novel Anandamath by Bankim Chandra ...

What do rainbows and swastikas have in common? They are both centuries old symbols that have been appropriated in recent times by cultural movements for political purposes. The swastika is an iconic ...

New Delhi, June 19 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic for presenting him with a reprint of the first printed Sanskrit grammar -- originally ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a reprint of the world’s first printed Sanskrit grammar, presented to him by Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenković, calling it “a remarkable ...

In the realm of Hindu rituals and spiritual offerings, few substances hold as much symbolic and sacred significance as Panchamrit—the nectar made from five ingredients. The word itself is derived from ...

Amid its war of words with the Centre over the three-language policy under the National Education Policy, the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government Thursday dropped the Devanagari rupee symbol and replaced it ...

Why Stalin's Bid to Regionalise Rupee Symbol Reeks of Hypocrisy? While DMK leaders cry foul about linguistic imposition, their attempt to regionalise a national currency symbol reeks of hypocrisy. The ...

The swastika is today synonymous with Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime; a red and black symbol of the Second World War. But this hasn't always been the case – the swastika existed as a symbol long before it ...