Death in Indic Thought – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”DIBFrNQ9qF2kfIEVJ2EZ76gYGod8BZrw”] Death, like most other profound phenomena in life, cannot be fully understood unless experienced at close quarters. My own first intimate encounter More...
What Are We? A Contemplation on the Hindu Identity – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”JiBQWtx2sPNQgFWTJ0yv8NKIVN9EiPUU”] In the previous article we have stated that the express goal of the entire corpus of Hindu darśana and that of every Hindu sampradāya is to More...
ধর্ম, স্বধর্ম এবং যুগধর্ম
ওঁ নমো ভগবতে বাসুদেবায়।। এই ঘোর কলিতে ধর্মপালন, বিশেষ ক’রে স্বধর্ম পালন করা অসম্ভব More...
What Are We? A Contemplation on the Hindu Identity – 1
What makes us Hindu? What makes us different from, say, a Christian or a Jewish community? Are we even a single monolithic community, capable of being identified by one or more unique traits? These are questions More...
Should Hindus Be Offended at the Republican Party Ad Featuring Lord Ganesha?
On the occasion of Ganesha Chaturthi, celebrations of which festival concluded just a week ago, the Fort Bend County (Texas) branch of the Republican Party in the USA had published a rather cheeky advertisement More...
A Ganesha Visarjan Procession in Mysore
The day saw a heavy downpour in Mysore, Karnataka. It is a rather old city in South-Western India, where the weather behaves like a capricious teenage girl. Within what seems like a matter of minutes, a sunny day More...
Death in Indic Thought – Part I: An Interpretation of the Kaṭha Upaniṣad
When Yama met Naciketā, who had come to offer himself to the Lord of Death at the bidding of his father, he was terrified at a child’s anticipated wrath. This was because Naciketā had to wait for three nights More...
The Battle over Historical Narratives of Chittor
[contextly_sidebar id=”mDZQshST3qurb4vgpvo05XOoITOXaxXs”] Apparently it has become become utterly “regressive”, “backward”, and “reactionary” to be proud of narrating a version of history More...
China’s Tryst with Sanskrit as Area Studies: A Few Lessons on Diplomacy for India
Policymakers have a lot to learn from historians and language experts. So do diplomats. Unless the policymakers of a country like India – which is surrounded by aggressive, imperialist nations on three sides – More...
Left’s Infiltration Into Education: The Great Betrayal by our Educators
What brings the Antifa, the Black Lives Matter, the radical feminists, Communists and Islamists together? There indeed is a one-word answer to that rather tedious question: Postmodernism. This non-/anti-philosophical More...