Kautilya

Videha or Mithila in the Mahabharata: The Ancient Kingdom of Janaka Across Northern Bihar and Nepal’s Terai

Mithila was remembered as the kingdom of Janaka and Sita in the Ramayana, as a centre of philosophical debate and learning in Vedic and Upanishadic tradition, and again in the Mahabharata as a land where questions of dharma, renunciation, kingship and liberation were explored through some of the epic’s most remarkable narratives.

India Renews ‘One Herb, One Standard’ Initiative to Strengthen Quality of Traditional Medicines

The renewed partnership seeks to develop uniform, scientifically robust and reliable quality standards for medicinal plants used as single drugs across Ayurveda, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani and Homoeopathy. The initiative is intended to address a long-standing challenge in which the same botanical material may be described, tested or standardised differently across various medicinal systems.

Beyond Aid and American Leverage: India’s Economic Growth Can No Longer Be Controlled from Washington

The modern Indian economy is approaching a scale at which neither American aid nor foreign philanthropic funding is remotely large enough to determine its direction. India’s growth is increasingly generated inside India itself through household consumption, infrastructure investment, manufacturing, services, entrepreneurship, digital commerce and an expanding technology ecosystem.

Nathu La: Zoho’s India-Designed Server Takes Aim at AI Costs and Technological Dependence

Unveiled on June 10, 2026, Nathu La represents Zoho’s first major entry into computer hardware. The Chennai-headquartered technology company developed the platform through a specialised engineering team based in Nagpur, extending its operations beyond business software, cloud services and artificial intelligence into the physical infrastructure that runs them.