India—a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction—often defies ready understanding. What holds its people together—across its many ...

A two-day conference on Persian manuscripts brought out the history and stories associated with the times and the people ... in architectural artwork in India. Sunil Sharma showed one of the ...

India's 17th-century Barapullah Stone Bridge ... Some piers have been destroyed in places, sewage from the drain has ...

Lucknow-based storyteller Himanshu Bajpai enthralled audiences in Russia over the weekend with his dastan centered on the ...

A day after a ceasefire, Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah accused each other of violating it, casting a shadow on the cautious ...

After Akbar, it was Jahangir who was very fond of the khichdi, but in a different form. He liked it to be spicier and ...

An Irish-Persian vlogger's video about living in Delhi has gone viral, where he talks about the national capital's pollution ...

Serious concern about “the security situation in the context of the terrorist threat in Afghanistan” was expressed by foreign ...

Waqf Boards, collectively, are among the top land-owners in India. The first recorded instance of Waqf in India was the gift ...

“I have great respect for those who use their voices to convey the truth to the people of Iran. That includes many of you, and certainly Kianoosh.” Reza Valizadeh, another former VOA Farsi service ...