Haasyarasa

The annual  Kartika Puja ( কার্তিকপূজা; कार्तिकपूजा ) is held in Bengal o n the final day of the month of Kartika  (কার্তিক; कार्तिक ) ac...

Lice  are among the most tenacious parasites that human beings have been forced to share their lives with since time immemorial. Sanskrit ...

One of the things that makes eating fish a daunting task for most humans is the difficulty of dealing with fish-bones . In many Indic lang...

Today's post is the odd one out in this series, in the sense that,  in each of the quoted couplets,  it is a Sanskrit word that has be...

In the early part of the second millennium CE, the Sena dynasty [see also  this ], originally from the Karnataka region, established a p...