Solve Riddle of Homosexuality by Tradition not Modernity
By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Saturday, July 21st, 2018
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Solve the riddle of Homosexuality by Indian Wisdom not by Modernity

The Apex Court is in the midst of hearing a revision of its earlier ruling on Article of British origin, namely the 377, and it is hoped that finally this Victorian piece among the thousands of such yokes hanging More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
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Anglophonic Hegemony and Indian Languages

In the wake of a statement by Sri. Venkaiah Naidu urging cultivation of Hindi by all Indians, a specter of an anti-Hindi agitation is being raised from some quarters. It is time to understand deeply, some plain More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017
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Kanyadaan is Giving a Dear Daughter, Not an Unwanted Saree

One prime example of how certain sections of the BJP are over-performing reform and liberalism as propounded by Marxists and Eurofeminists is by declaring that they shall not follow the ritual of kanyadaan in marriage More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Friday, November 13th, 2015
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Why the BJP Lost Bihar?

Many think that Modi and the BJP lost Bihar because the RSS chief made a confusing comment on the issue of Reservation Policy. Many attribute this statement was based on motives of internal warfare within the Sangh More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Friday, October 23rd, 2015
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Religious Pluralism and Distorted Notions of Secularism in Education

The events of the European Reformation and its aftermath in which the material power of the Christian Church was reduced, still hang heavy as a collective memory in social orders that have inherited this civilization. More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Friday, October 2nd, 2015
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Gandhi: A Modern Medievalist

There can be no doubt that Gandhiji was a towering personality of 20th century India. I was raised listening to the enchanting lines of the song of the film ‘Jagrati’, “De di hame aazaadi binaa kadga binaa More...

Amartya Sen
By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Monday, July 13th, 2015
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What Ails Amartya Sen?

The former head of the Nalanda University, Amartya Sen writing in the New York Review makes wild and sweeping allegations against the Narendra Modi Government even as he conceals his own record of not showing accounts More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Saturday, June 27th, 2015
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What Yoga is and is not: A report from Greece

Shantom Centre, Athens, 6 June 2015 Professor Bharat Gupt, a classicist, expert in ancient Greek and Indian theater, and a scholar of Indian philosophy and religion spoke at the Shantom Centre, Athens on the topic More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
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Re-establishing Shastras in Indian Education

The Conflict between European and Indic Vidyaas There is an un-subsiding conflict between traditional and modern genres of knowledge. The latter came to India from Europe a century and half ago but have now become More...

By Dr. Bharat Gupt On Monday, January 19th, 2015
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An Open Letter to Sri Rohan Murthy

Dear Sri Rohan Murthy, I read with interest your article on DailyO explaining why you funded Harvard to start and run the Murty Classical Library. I shall be honest and blunt to a fault without meaning any disrespect. More...