Microsoft Research demonstrated Thursday the prototype of a multilingual interactive digital map of India at a research symposium in Bangalore, India. The development is the offshoot of an agreement ...

That India is an extremely diverse country is a widely known, but nonetheless true, platitude. For convenience, India is usually interpreted through geographical categories, such as North India, ...

The Mahābhārata is often judged using a modern instinct: Can we pin every place it names onto today’s political map of India? When that exercise feels uncomfortable or incomplete, doubts follow. But ...

If you had been a map maker back in the 13th century, you’d be the equivalent of a techie in today’s job market. If you were really good at it, there’d have been a bidding war over your services ...