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Kushan Empire
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Kushan Empire
Dancing Shiva in Samarkand: Central Asian traders spread Hinduism, Buddhism along Silk Road
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Anirudh Kanisetti
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March 16, 2023
800 years before Babur, Hindu gods were worshipped by merchant diasporas in Central Asia.
Shiva, Skanda: How Hindu gods absorbed Iranian, Greek ideas
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Anirudh Kanisetti
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February 23, 2023
Some of the most important gods of modern India were influenced by Central Asian elites of the Kushan Empire.
Buddhism did not spread by the sword. But the empires that helped it grow did
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Anirudh Kanisetti
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February 16, 2023
Greater Gandhara—the forgotten superpower that shaped India, Central Asia and modern-day Buddhism.
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Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff
Phiroze J Shroff
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August 9, 2025
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.
Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable
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Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy
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Economy
Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike
Neelam Pandey
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August 8, 2025
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...
Defence
Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records
Snehesh Alex Philip
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August 9, 2025
New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...
National Interest
Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution
Shekhar Gupta
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August 9, 2025
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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