India is a land of unparalleled diversity. It is a country where more than 1.4 billion people coexist, representing an ...

India, Hindi (the language), Hindu (a follower of the religion ... building on the work of his grandfather Chandragupta Maurya, was Ashoka (see map 1), but at unfathomable human cost.

In some Indian languages, the word for “language” is bhasha—the vowels long and warm, as in “car” or “tar.” It has a formal weight and a refined spirit. It comes to us from the ...