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"Shin Ukkaṭṭha” in local periodicals, newspapers, journals, and history is recognized as “the revolutionary thinker and monk of Burma." Given the number of norms he has broken in his life, he certainly deserved the label. Even those who opposed his interpretation of Buddhism have ultimately come to the conclusion that, despite the criticism, they are left with no other option than to either "become the laughing stock" or "adopt the interpretation of Shin Ukkaṭ...

400 years after Sir Thomas Roe visited India, while yoga mats have become necessary personal accessories in the West, mobility, visa restrictions, and rights of international students continue to be flashpoints between New Delhi and London; and India and the UK are locked up in hard negotiations to finalise a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.

‘Academy’, as many of us know, is a word that comes from the French word ‘academie’, evolving from Latin ‘academia’—the ultimate ancestor of both being Greek ‘akademeia’.

    Marie Sinclair. (wiki)   Marie Sinclair (1830-1895) was the only surviving daughter of Don José de Mariategui, of Santa Catalina, the

Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) was a pivotal figure in the modern history of Buddhism, both in Asia and the West.  Much of the way Buddhism is

A new book looks at India’s role in sating spiritual searches | Culture

In a lively narrative, delivered with wit and warmth, Brown shows how Eastern mysticism went from being suspect to venerable, and back again to a subject of scepticism.

In recent years when we’ve talked about the relations between India and the West, we’ve gone back to stressing the impossibility of interchange. A hundred years ago, E.M. Forster ended A Passage to India with the certainty that Aziz and Fielding could not be friends. Forster thought things would be different after Indian independence, but

In this entertaining history of the West’s fascination with Indian spirituality, Mick Brown covers all manner of curious characters

During her three-year stay in India in the 1930s, Nilla Cram Cook drew crowds and controversy.