Historian-archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri takes us through India’s antiquity and values at breakneck speed in her new book

Our ancient sages were so much in tune with Prakriti that they came to predict—and prepare—for the vagaries in nature

Innovation gave ancient India immense economic advantage

Civilisational Quest

We now break more food boundaries for the pure joy of it

A pause in the glorious past

The Vikram Samvat mystery

Coming to terms with culinary Hinduism

Those who seriously still think ancient India had devised a parallel mathematical system need to acquaint themselves with an inventive Shankaracharya called Bharti Krishna Tirthaji.