The Tam Chuc Spring Festival opened with the iconic water procession, where over 200 boats gathered to perform an ancient ...

Arun Ganapathy visits the home of Rama s biographer in Varanasi and finds that the Ramayana s key characters are living entities for the localsAt the end of the famed ghats of Varanasi there s one gha ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

From Thiksey Monastery to Hemis Monastery, here’s a list of some of the most popular monasteries in Ladakh.

Sri Lanka is becoming a tourism hotspot for Ayurvedic medicine. Autumn Phillips discusses her experience of yoga, meditation and retreats in her latest column.

The Ranjana script is visually intricate and has deep cultural and historical significance. It is primarily used by the Newa ...

Tourism, climate goals, and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and ...

Adivasis and Brahmins stake claim over a deity who was worshipped by tribals as a stone for centuries before the stone became a multi-armed idol of a goddess all Hindus revere ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

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My goal is to flee the bright lights, soupy humidity, persistent vendors and surging traffic of Bangkok. The plan: head north ...

Established in 427 CE, Nalanda University in present-day Bihar, was home to one of the world’s first great universities, ...