This spring festival celebrates the arrival of the new harvest and is marked by lighting bonfires and throwing colored powder.
This epic poem, composed in Sanskrit around the 4th century, tells the story of a young merchant's journey and is considered one of the earliest surviving works of Indian drama.
This 4th-century Sanskrit drama by Kalidasa tells the story of a king who falls in love with a hermitage girl and faces tragic consequences due to a curse.
This Sanskrit drama by Bhasa tells the story of a merchant's son who falls in love with a slave girl and must navigate class boundaries and social conventions.
This 5th-century mathematician and astronomer calculated the value of pi to four decimal places and described the sine function, work that wouldn't be equaled in Europe for over a thousand years.