New Delhi: On the outer wall of the Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu, a 12th-century stone carving shows a woman giving birth while standing upright, supported by attendants on both sides. A replica ...

In one of the earliest surviving Marathi writings from the 13th century, the religious teacher Cakradhara uses a thorny acacia tree as a metaphor for the cycle of life, death and rebirth. What he ...