The second episode of Michael Wood's journey through Indian history covers the last centuries BCE—the age of the Buddha, the coming of the Greeks and the rule of the emperor Ashoka, one of the greatest figures in world history. Beginning with incredible ...

I recently received the results of an ancestry test from 23andMe, a company offering autosomal DNA testing for ancestry. I was not surprised to learn that my recent ancestry, from the last three centuries, is almost exclusively South Asian. Because 23andMe ...