Under Ashoka, the last great Mauryan emperor, the empire extended across almost the entirety of the Indian subcontinent. In his new book, Ashoka: Portrait of a Philospher King, Patrick Olivelle ...

Colombo, November 5: A perusal of the works of two outstanding Sri Lankan scholars on Emperor Ashoka, Prof Olivelle and Dr. Ananda Guruge, reveals that as an individual, Ashoka was a committed ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Ashoka the Great, the Mauryan emperor, is remembered not only for his victories but also for embracing peace after the Kalinga War. Discover why he is called “the Great,” his achievements, like ...

Ashoka was the son of Bindusara. He was governor of Taxila and Ujjain during his father’s reign. Ashoka sat on the throne around 268 B.C after successfully defeating his brothers. There was an ...

Popular television actor Pallavi Subhash has been signed on to portray the role of a timeless heroine ‘Dharma’ Emperor Ashoka’s mother in the show. In what may be recollected as one of India’s rich ...

Emperor Ashoka was a stubby man, who as a prince, visited a site in Odisha with his girlfriend. When I went to Kathmandu in 1966 as an English teacher, I was taken to the city of Patan and shown some ...

The timeless grandeur of Emperor Ashoka was staged as a dance drama by the Temple of Fine Arts (TFA) in Singapore recently. TFA is a vision of guru Swami Shantananda to foster the arts. With ...