In his book Buddhist India Rhys Davids traces the history of writing in India where Buddhism was born. Explaining the ...

As to the strange pictographs which do duty for letters, three points are worthy ... writing is totally distinct from the early Brahmi script which the Emperor Asoka employed throughout the ...

One viewpoint is that the script came directly from Brahmi due to the latter’s decline ... script required lifting the pen to write letters and draw horizontal and vertical lines and was ...

Guwahati: In 1972, a college principal discovered a stone fragment with an inscription in the eastern Indian variety of Brahmi script from the 5th century at a villager’s residence in Assam’s ...

The inscription, written in Brahmi script and identifying Ashoka as ‘Devanampriya Ashoka', was discovered by researcher Beadon in 1915 on a hill 2km from the town. Mahanthesh Maski, a prominent ...

The discovery of Tamil-Brahmi script inscriptions from the 2nd century BCE in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka challenges the notion that Sanskrit predates Tamil. Scholars such as Kamil Zvelebil have ...

As Freddie Eugene Owens lives the last hours of his life, USA TODAY is sharing some of the South Carolina death row inmate's handwritten letters to a woman he loved. At times furious and at others ...

The master storyteller that he is, Dalrymple is able to fit together pieces of a vast puzzle and create a wonderful narrative The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on ...

Guest: Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He is the host of the weekly program, ...

During the post-pandemic period, the vacancy-unemployment ratio was at historically high levels, but the strength of overall labor demand was unclear. Analysis using data from the National Federation ...

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