"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth."- Galadriel in Lord of the Rings

Whatever we call history will become myth someday in future, and whatever we call as myth had its history at some point in the past. Harvard University is going to offer classes on Ramayana and Mahabharata in the upcoming fall semester with the course titled, “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures". “The Indian epics are long and comp...

When I decided to write an article on Indian history, I wondered for a while, how can one write an article in a page or two about the history of humans for over 5000 years, about the land where all human pasts are still alive, about the story of India, the Incredible India! India is the only land on the earth where the unbroken chain of human history is there. So , I decided to split the article in to 4 parts, pre-literature, literature, pre-modern and modern histories of India. The first par...