There is a great deal of talk about peace, non-violence and co-operation among nations today. Few people know that Emperor Ashoka was the first king in the world to adopt these principles as the benchmark of his political strategy in the 3rd century BCE. The third emperor in the Maurya dynasty, Ashoka ruled the whole of India from [...]
Read and React…says Dr. Kumud Kanitkar, winner of the Justice K.T. Telang Fellowship in Indology, who created a research paper on this imposing monument near the metropolis of Mumbai for the Asiatic Society of Mumbai… By Vimla Patil (Temple Photographs: Prabhakar Patil) ________________________________________________________________________________ When you alight at the Ambernath station on the Central Railway after a [...]
Read and ReactEvery civilization looks at animals, birds and sea creatures in its own special way. In India, generations over the millenniums have seen all species as their friends and partners with whom they share the earth. They have been presented in beautiful forms in paintings and sculptures as companions of deities, as symbols of power and [...]
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