India s contributions to science, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy date back thousands of years. Long before the rise of modern technologies, ancient Indian thinkers, scientists, and scholars had ...

Chess, originally known as "chaturanga" and developed in India around 1,500 years ago, symbolised military strategy through its four types of pieces. Over centuries, it evolved into the global ...

Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25－220) successfully invented the world's first batch of paper using fish nets, tree bark, bits of rope and rags. [xinhuanet.com] It is known to all that China was ...

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Award winning author Irene Vallejo joins us for an evening of reading and conversation to share insights about her latest book: Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, which traces the ...