This Bengali family speaks only Sanskrit at home to keep alive the ancient language | Hindustan Times
“Lachit, atro agachchhatu. Griham atithayoh agoto bontoh (Come here, Lachit, we have guests),” Moumita Bar told her son as we entered the two-bedroom flat in a middle class locality in Basirhat town near the More...
‘How the Indian mathematical genius Ramanujan saved my life’ | Grin News
Ken Ono is a professor of mathematics at Emory University in America. As a teenager he struggled both with the pedantic nature of his school work and the tall aspirations of his Japanese parents. Then his mathematician More...
Why the world’s largest free food charity is moving to millets
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme serving wholesome food to 1.66 million children from 13,839 schools across 12 states in India. It is a not-for-profit More...
Saraswati river existed, flowed for 7,000 years: MSU geologists | Times of India
VADODARA: The Saraswati river, so far considered mythical, did exist, geologists from M S University’s Department of Geology have found. The geologists have made a significant breakthrough on the mighty Himalayan More...
Two international yoga festivals begin in Rishikesh | Times Of India
DEHRADUN/RISHIKESH: Two global yoga festivals kicked off simultaneously in Rishikesh on Thursday. While the ‘International Yog Festival’ organised by Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam, Uttarakhand Tourism Development More...
Epic discovery: Kolkata scholars find ‘lost’ manuscripts in Chennai library | Times of India
KOLKATA: Ancient Indian scholar Jaimini, a student of Ved Vyasa, has been held in great esteem for his re-telling of the ‘Mahabharata’. But most Indology scholars considered his works to be lost because More...
‘Revolutionary Zero’: This ancient Indian manuscript has the first known use of ‘Sunya’ | Zee News
New Delhi: The origin of the concept of zero or sunya has been traced an ancient Indian Bakhshali manuscript. Radiocarbon dating, conducted by the University of Oxford, reveals that the manuscript belongs to 3rd More...
सबसे बड़े मठ के शंकराचार्य जयेंद्र सरस्वती को कांची पीठ में दी गई महासमाधि, 1 लाख लोगों ने किए दर्शन | दैनिक भास्कर
चेन्नई.सबसे बड़े हिंदू मठ कांची कामकोटि पीठ के प्रमुख और 69वें शंकराचार्य जयेंद्र More...
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi enters into Mahasamadhi at 82, Final rites of Kanchi seer tomorrow at 8 am; tributes pour in
CHENNAI: Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal (82), the 69th Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham entered into Mahasamadhi today. He was admitted to a hospital this morning reportedly after a cardiac arrest. His More...
Why do we pour milk on the Shiva Linga?
This question is asked all too often, not only by westerners or newcomers to Sanatana Hindu Dharma, but even by born Hindus who practice without knowing the context of what we practice. Some scholars give their More...