From Tulsidas to Mir Taqi Mir, how the Murty Classical Library of India is preserving South Asia’s literary legacy through ...

A new study finds that while LLMs improve translation accuracy for Indic texts, ​​they still struggle to preserve sentiment and cultural context.

For centuries, The Kama Sutra has been one of the most misunderstood texts in history. Mention its name, and many people ...

IFS Jeysundhar D and Bharatnatyam exponent Rama Vaidyanathan on their engagement with 8th century Bhakti poet-saint Andal's ...

The two great men shook the world by their ideas and deeds, and lived their lives for others on this very land, twenty-five ...

Tamil row has reared its head again, with CM MK Stalin accusing the Centre of imposing Hindi through its three-language ...

Composed in the ancient Sanskrit language in the 3rd century by ... while “sutra” translates to a treatise. The text explores relationships, ethics and social norms. It offers a framework ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn ... in Pahlavi (now lost), Syriac and Arabic—the original Sanskrit source vanished. A Hebrew translation was the basis for ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The history of the Bengali language and literature was not brought into the service of seeking a territorial foothold for the concept of ‘Bengaliness’ because this was never an agenda for Bengal ...

Did you know that the literal meaning of Jataka is ‘birth stories’? A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of Indian literature that mainly con ...

His original oil painting hangs in the Lakshmi ... a deer and an elephant. The tales span Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhalese, Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Japanese and English. It seems unfair to talk about ...