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Is a new variant driving India’s coronavirus catastrophe? "scientists have urged against leaping to conclusions about the extent to which the variant alone is responsible for the dizzying rise in

India & the Ancient Ocean Trade World My next book, The Golden Road, will be focusing on the diffusion of Indic culture in the early centuries AD, and this short

I'm become very interested in yakshas, yakshis and nagas- classes of sacred beings which seem to be relatively peripheral to modern Indian religion and spirituality, but which dominated much of the art

Exquisitely poised and supple, Chola bronze deities are some of the greatest works of art ever created in India. They stand silent on their plinths yet with their hands they

A Suitable BirdHaving just finished Mira Nair's wonderful adaptation of Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, I feel its time to go public on the great love affair between Vikram &

The Diwani- the document that handed over the three richest provinces in India to the East India Company, 1765. Later, the British dignified the document by calling it the Treaty

On a hot April night in 2005, during the Sufi Soul shoot, I took the young Rahat Fateh Ali Khan to the shrine of Baba Farid at Pakpattan. We filmed

Tragic news from Old Delhi: the dome of the Masjid Mubarak Begum (aka the Rundi ki Masjid) just collapsed.... Mubarak Begum was wife of Sir David Ochterlony. She started off

"In reviewing the vast literature on the subject, one gains the impression that the whole story of Rome−China trade has been vastly exaggerated by the myth of the Silk Route,"