Some 130 academics wrote to Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and his son Rohan questioning the choice of Sheldon Pollock.

The online petition was signed by 132 academics and public figures seeking to oust Pollock, who is editor of the Murty Classical Library of...

The septuagenarian scholar has always worked with American universities but his work centered around India, its civilisation, traditions an...

'From our generation, there is going to be a real drought, where we are not replacing enough of these scholars of the previous generation.'

Like Wendy Doniger and others before him, Sheldon Pollock will survive this peevish and idiotic attack on his scholarship and his politics.

Murty said that Sheldon Pollock will continue to oversee the translation of Indian classics into English for several more years.

The petition seeking the ouster of Sheldon Pollock from the Murty Classical Library is entirely without basis, one of India's best-known li...

A group of 132 scholars has appealed to NR Narayana Murthy and MCLI founder Rohan Murty to remove Professor Sheldon Pollock as general edit...

After the success of the first edition, the Murty Classical Library of India will launch the second set of books by the end of the month.

A familiar left vs right spat is developing over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to California's famed Silicon Valley later this month.

Indian goods travel via Singapore to reach Bangladesh in three weeks; now they will go directly to Bangladeshi ports in a week.

"I was amazed by how humanities constructs complex, intellectually sophisticated arguments from texts that are 1,500 years old," says Murty.

Writers are known to have good imaginations. It's no wonder, then, that writer & festival director William Dalrymple thinks up creative way...

Set up by Harvard University Press with the help of a personal endowment by Murty, the library aims to publish as many as 500 books over th...

The JLF has become a fixture on the calendars of literature enthusiasts. ET Panache picks sessions for visitors who may want to drop by and...

As he readies a global showing of his library, Murty says that he wants a wider audience for India's literary heritage.

A proper teaching of Sanskrit can help foster self-assuredness and humanity, in the way that reading Latin and Greek did for generations of...