Deep beneath Meghalaya’s hills lies a vast underground world waiting to be explored. Discover what makes Krem Liat Prah one ...

Modern India is largely a Hindu country today, but in ancient times, starting with the reign of the pious Ashoka (c. 268-232 B.C.), Buddhism flourished in its western regions. In the centuries that ...

India's caves are thousands of years old. Some date back to the Stone Age. The earliest people to use caves were from the Mesolithic period. They lived in rock shelters and painted scenes from daily ...

GUJARAT, India (RNS) — In western India, where thousands of monks once worshipped in caves chiseled into the rocky hills, a fight is on to keep Hindu chauvinists from erasing a 2,000-year-old Buddhist ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In a remote cave in northeast India, rainwater has slowly dripped from the ceiling in the same spots for over 1,000 years. With each drop, minerals in the water accumulate on the ...

A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious fish, which they named Schistura densiclava, in Meghalaya’s Krem Mawjymbuin ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gayatri Kathayat, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Ashish Sinha, California State ...