Why the cosmos fascinates us

The fascination for the skies and what lies beyond has fathered an expansive stockpile of astronomical myths and legends and in India, also an elaborate astrological system, notes Arundhuti......

True villain is the Indian law, says Wendy Doniger

American Indologist Wendy Doniger whose book The Hindus: An Alternative History was withdrawn following objections that it hurt sentiments of Hindus is "angry and disappointed" over the development......

The desi roman clef

"I read Glenarvon too, by Caro Lamb/ Goddamn!" In 1816, when the Lady Caroline Lamb published her infamous roman clef, Glenarvon, Lord Byron's response summed up his dismay at discovering the......