If you’ve ever traveled in Asia, you may have been caught off guard by a symbol considered by most Western travelers as a sign of fascism. The swastika is an ancient Sanskrit symbol meaning “good ...

'On both sides of our cultural divide, it roused strong emotions that had very little to do with the language and its literature.' 'I felt Sanskrit had been removed from the realm of thought, and made ...

They finally realized it’s just not Reich! Japan will stop using a swastika on maps for tourists after complaints the symbol was offending foreigners. The symbol in question is not a real swastika, ...

On the left, the temple symbol currently used on Japanese-language maps, and on the right is the proposed new symbol for foreign-language maps A Japanese proposal to stop using swastikas to identify ...

LONDON: Europe may be forced into considering a continent-wide ban on the swastika, one of the oldest, most globally recognized but also most reviled Sanskrit symbols in the West. LONDON: Europe may ...