When Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was rattling his sabre under the tremulous nose of France, a German professor stuck his finger into the dead corpus of the Sanskrit language and pulled out ...

THE discovery of the Aryan family of languages, as elucidated in the paper printed in The Atlantic for February, was the first and most conspicuous consequence of the zeal for Sanskrit studies which ...

People around the world speak about 7,100 languages today. Some languages, such as Tamil and Sanskrit, have been around for ...

Thinking about Iran and the Bomb the other day (what newspaper reader doesn’t?), it struck me as a curious coincidence that, for the second time in some of our lifetimes, Jews are being threatened ...

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 ...