Using the idiom of Manipuri dance, the choreographers borrow from the imagery of Pakhangba, the primordial, snake-like deity of the Meitei people, protector of their land, to embody the cycle of time ...

Sanskrit means ‘perfectly made’. It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system very early in ...

Our Endless Day Corvus Consort Freddie Crowley, Conductor Louise Thomson, Harp Rig Veda - Group 3 Corvus Consort Freddie Crowley, Conductor Louise Thomson, Harp Dirge and Hymeneal Corvus Consort ...

You died. That much is obvious in the opening moments of Astra: Knights of Veda, which drops you straight into a war, clashing swords with strangers in suits of armor. Suddenly, just as it starts to ...

According to Vedic astrology, zodiac is not just a system of signs but a cosmic wheel that is well described in Rig Veda by Dirghatmas, one of the Angirasa Rishis, the oldest of the Rishi families, ...

A new study argues that a 3,000-year-old hymn from the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit shares remarkable musical patterns with sacred texts from ancient India, suggesting the existence of a global ...

The Rig veda is considered to be one of the four sacred Veda texts in Hindu religion. The depth of the texts in the canonical is called the Rigveda Samhita. This is a collection of over a thousand ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journalists and newsmakers.