Their names used to reverberate through early morning prayers, fire rites, and sacred chants. As guardians of rain, fire, dawn, and justice, they were the lifeblood of ancient Indian devotion. But ...
Revanta, the son of Surya and chief of the Guhyakas (semi-divine beings), was a popular god of warriors and hunters during the early medieval period. Once revered in northern and eastern India, ...
The 70-odd villagers of Mokhimpur in Uttar Pradesh were nobodies. Spurned by their neighbors because their subcaste was regarded as backward and ignorant, the Baghbhans of Mokhimpur had little to ...