The film Chhaava, centred on Maratha king Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, has sparked debates about its portrayal of history. Yet, rather than simply asking what the film gets right or wrong, perhaps we ...

As India moves towards high-income status, the number of art buyers is skyrocketing and ... the highest price ever fetched by an Indian painter. Christie’s had estimated a fair price at $2.5 ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

Kiran Nadar, a prominent Indian art collector, acquired MF Husain's iconic painting 'Untitled (Gram Yatra)' for $13.8 million, setting a new record for Modern Indian art. This landmark sale highlights ...

The tensions showed how right-wing Hindu leaders and organizations in India use historical grievances to fuel contemporary tensions. By Hari Kumar Anupreeta Das and Pragati K.B. Reporting from New ...

Tracing its roots to ancient Vedic times, the Rudra Veena is one of the oldest veenas in Indian music, deeply tied to the Dhrupad tradition and spiritual practices. Where it’s still played: The Rudra ...

The San Antonio Museum of Art’s spring exhibition blends the ancient and the modern in exploration ... “Envisioning the Hindu Divine: Expanding Darshan and Manjari Sharma” combines nine ...

Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of a western Indian city on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes were sparked by Hindu nationalist groups who want to demolish the tomb of a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of a western Indian city on Tuesday, a day after sectarian ...

No, it wasn’t another Miami rave, but one of the most prominent Hindu celebrations called Holi, or the “festival of colors.” The festival, hosted by the Miami Association of Indians for Art ...

While today’s pregnancy tests rely on detecting hormones in urine, ancient societies, including those in Egypt, Greece, India, and Europe, devised innovative techniques that often yielded surprisingly ...

When Ananth Udupa was 7 and growing up in Phoenix, he underwent a Hindu rite of passage for boys of higher castes called an Upanayana. The ceremony, which goes back millennia, in some ways ...