Will the Indian Army’s Yeti post boost interest in cryptozoology?

For many in the academic world, it is still a pseudoscience, not to be taken seriously at all

How our ancestors viewed the sky: new film explores both indigenous and modern cosmology

!Aitsa explores the intellectual background and science of the soon-to-be world’s largest radio telescope alongside indigenous conceptions …

Kings ate this fruit to restore their youth

Khirni is a life-saving fruit mentioned in ancient texts and also has medicinal properties

Mermaids in Japan – from hideous harbingers of violence to beautiful enchantresses

Japan has adopted the western representation of the mermaid now, in contrast to the  ghoulish ningyo, the half-human fish with a monkey’…

World Intellectual Property Organization working towards treaty on traditional knowledge, folklore

Draft text though fails to address the problem of biopiracy of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge using patents, says experts

Drums, cymbals and stories

Kaushik Das Gupta attends a festival that celebrates endangered stories