Working in the subcontinent, I’ve experienced many of its marvels; from palaces to ashrams, hill stations to sacred rivers, megacities to rustic villages. But nothing matches the caves of Ajanta ...

The Kanjur stone used for the construction of Buddhist Stupa at Ban Faqiran, was also extracted from these rocks. These caves were first used by Buddhist monks for meditation. After the decline of ...

The first ice stupa was created in 2013, in Ladakh, in Kashmir. Villages in Ladakh, a high mountain-desert region bordered by the Himalayas, largely depend on glacial runoff for water.