Guru-shishya Paramapara is an Ancient Indian method of education. Read to find how different it is from the modern Indian education system.

Yoga has today become an international phenomenon but did you know it was once banned in India? Read more to find out why.

With a rough history of struggle and displacement, who are the Parsis and how have they thrived within the Indian society?

India, and its ages-old relationship with sustainability can be seen in these practices followed by Indians since time immemorial.

A playwright, poet, painter, Rabindranath Tagore is a household name till date. Despite being born in a different era, Tagore...

Eventually, the beautiful language of Urdu caught the Queen's attention. But who would teach her an Indian language in her homeland?

Each Mughal ruler, whether it be Babur, Akbar, or Shah Jahan, left their imprint on India in a unique manner...

Zafar actively wrote a number of poems which give us an idea about the events in his life. For instance...

To crush the Burmese and the Mughal empire, Britishers exiled their kings to foreign countries, which bound India and Burma together...

With the diminishing influence of temples, their social status started falling and the practice took the form of commercial prostitution...

India celebrates Sardar Patel's birthday as the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on 31st October. However. 31st October is not his real birth date...

One of the most popular Indian forms of music is Qawwali that has gone beyond all linguistic barriers and is now a globally acclaimed art.

This tale is of a princess who dedicated her whole life to her father, and thus, fulfilled her promise to her dying mother.

Read about the legend associated with the emergence of the social evil- the 'Devadasi' tradition in India.

Did you know plastic surgery was an ancient Indian invention? Read more about the man behind it. Read this article to find out more.