Somnath Shivling destroyed by Mahmud Ghazni 1,000 years ago revived by Agnihotri Brahmin family In 1924, the then Shankaracharya instructed the family who had preserved the broken pieces of the ...

Mahmud returned to Ghazni and Anandpal returned to Lahore, with Nandna being a Salt Range headquarter. In 1013, Anandpal died and there is considerable confusion on the reasons.

POOR old Mahmud of Ghazni has been so many things in his afterlife. He’s been a rabid religious fanatic bent on physically eliminating Hindus. He’s been a glorious champion of the faith ...

Writer and poet R. Raj Rao’s latest novel Mahmud and Ayaz (Speaking Tiger) bears his signature style. Unsettling and unapologetic, Rao models the relationship between a young Muslim man and his ...