Salman Rushdie, in his novel, Midnight’s Children, writes about the game of Snakes and Ladders that “all games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope ...

A giant version can be seen on the courtyard in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra and is considered as the origin of the ludo Souvik Mukherjee sets up a ‘chaupar’ board at the event at the Birla Academy of Art ...

The dice rolls and the players, wooden pegs in hand, contemplate a square, green cloth chequered with grids. Black snakes squiggle all over it and there’s Sanskrit script in places. At first glance it ...

The next time you roll the dice for a game of Ludo or Snakes & Ladders, remember that like chess these popular board games too originated in ancient India. Traditional Indian board games are now ...