The exposition of the Lord Buddha’s Tooth Relic evoked awe and reverence from Buddhists across the country. Devotees, from ...

Renowned poet Adil Jussawalla says Learn balance with nothing to stand on though you ve lost heart lost ground Go rootless homeless but balance Yin and yang positive and negative day and night in beau ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Monday emphasised the need to develop a Buddhist tourism circuit in the region to promote spiritual tourism and cultural exchange.

Calling Thailand the Land of Smiles might seem like setting the bar a little high, but after spending three weeks there, I ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world’s most mesmerising destinations. Similar in land area to Ireland and rich in theatrical ...

The Statue of Union towers over the flat urban landscape of Sugar Land. At 90 feet tall and 90 tons, the bronze monument to Lord Hanuman is the third-tallest statue in the U.S., and the tallest of the ...

BR Ambedkar not only indigenised the concept of human rights but also reinstated human values in a society long dehumanised by the Varna system.

In several recent incidents, police have ordered the removal of the statue saying it had been installed illegally, without ...

An excerpt from ‘The Master of Unfinished Things,’ by Geet Chaturvedi, translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan.

Planning a trip to the tropical island country of the moment? Beverley Watts has your guide to the unmissable historic sites, ...