Kautilya

Ayurveda and the Main Meal: Why Midday Matters

Ayurveda describes digestion through the concept of Jatharagni, the digestive fire responsible for transforming food into usable nourishment. A meal may contain high-quality ingredients, but Ayurveda maintains that its value depends greatly on whether the body can digest and assimilate it properly.

Pragjyotisha — Bhagadatta’s Kingdom of the Brahmaputra Valley

This landscape is fundamentally shaped by the Brahmaputra and its many tributaries. Broad floodplains, river islands, wetlands, forests and surrounding hills created an environment very different from the drier plains of the upper Ganga-Yamuna region. Communication naturally followed the great river and the corridors formed between the valley and the surrounding mountains.