Indian historiography is largely the legacy of British colonial rule. The imprint of Western social sciences was so strong on the Indian psyche that our subcontinent found it impossible to break away ...

When we look at Iran through the prism of religion and see a Shia Islamic country, we negate its thousands of years of rich ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

From "madar" and "matr" to "haft" and "sapta", the scores of parallels between Persian and Sanskrit are more than coincidence. They are linguistic reminders of a shared civilisation that is 4,000 ...

Do all Indian languages share a Sanskrit origin? The Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar theory says yes. This critique examines its ...

India and the European Union concluded a landmark FTA in January 2026 after nearly two decades of negotiations, with both sides describing it as the ‘mother of all deals’. The agreement covers goods, ...

The Infosys Prize 2025 in Humanities and Social Sciences was recently awarded to Professor Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the ...

Jewish India is over 2000 years old. Historical Hindu India was and is today almost entirely devoid of the oldest institutionalized hatred on earth, antisemitism.  Deeply distressing to Jews worldwide ...

Freud has Freudian just as Byron has Byronic, and Kafka his Kafkaesque. Such terms are called eponymous adjectives, the funny ...

FPRI had an exceptional year. We published cutting-edge research on the challenges Russia and China pose to American interests in the Indo-Pacific region, ...

Meanwhile in Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi insists that China, not the United States, is the most disruptive threat that countries face. Takaichi’s landslide victory in a snap election in ...

Since he started his war on Iran, President Trump has gone from not needing help to begging for it regarding the Strait of ...