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The leaders of Greece and India, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Shri Narendra Modi, issued a joint statement following the meeting they held in Athens, the first visit of an Indian PM in four decades. Greece-India joint statement in full 1. At the...

India's struggle for independence has been inspired by Greek ideas shared by many of its revolutionaries and philhellenes. By Arunansh B Goswami* In his book The Histories, Herodotus mentions ‘Indians’ (‘Indoi-Ινδοι' in Greek) on page 187. It was the first time...

Apart from being well-known for its cashmere pashmina shawls, which even Roman emperors favored, the beautiful region of Kashmir in India was once ruled by more than eleven Greek kings, and it has been called heaven on earth by...

The religion of the Greeks of India was not that of the Ancient Greek Pantheon. It was also not Christian Orthodoxy, as Christian proselytization had yet to catch on in India. Cultures, religions, and languages have had an evolutionary past...

Buddhism, a religion, or according to some, a path towards experiencing ultimate reality, was founded by Siddhārtha Gautama, a man from India also referred to as "The Buddha". Buddhism is practiced in various parts of the world and the...

On a recent visit to India, Lt Gen Themistoklis Bourolias, Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (Greece) paid homage to Indian fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial. He also met with India's military top brass and discussed...

Dionysus is an Ancient Greek god and part of the Roman pantheon. He was known as Bacchus to the Romans and was connected with the Italian god of fertility and wine, Liber Pater. Interestingly, he is also associated with India...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was moved after hearing a group of Greek students singing "Vande Mataram," the national song of India. Modi lauded the Greek highschool students from the region of Ilia on his monthly radio address to the...

Greece and India agreed to work to strengthen bilateral ties during the visit of Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Athens